Posted by Bob on 7/30/2007, 6:32 am, in reply to "Re: Fermi's Paradox, Cosmology, and, Are We Alone?" However, if you substitute intellectual resources for natural resources, you make a very good point. The one resource that no techno-civilization could reliably produce is a new way of looking at things, or a new way of thinking. So if they were motivated by some aesthetic of learning, they might seek to communicate with other techno-civilizations, or even with primitives. If we accept that as a working premise, then we are left with two likely solutions to the Fermi paradox. Either there are no ET techno civilizations, or else, they are secretively watching us. Ooh.
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Interesting, except I disagree about the natural resources part. Creatures of sufficient technological advancement would have learned transmutation of elements, and be able to create whatever natural resources they needed.
