Aww, no alien empires yet

[chris0033547]

Quotes from the article:

[..]scientists have found 50 galaxies with unusual radiation signatures, indicating something strange is happening inside many distant collections of stars -- even if it's nothing to do with aliens at all.

[..]In particular lead author Roger Griffith identified 50 galaxies out of the 100 million catalogued by Wise, and the 100,000 studied in more detail, which had "unusually high levels of mid-infrared radiation". "Our follow-up studies of those galaxies may reveal if the origin of their radiation results from natural astronomical processes, or if it could indicate the presence of a highly advanced civilisation," Griffith said.[..]

I don't know, why the authors of the article are so pessimistic. These two quotes are amazing news for me.

If you want, you can also take a look at this discussion, which focuses on the Fermi Paradox later on:

http://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1250

Maybe looking for megaprojects like a Dyson Sphere is a wrong approach anyway. A Dyson Sphere is basically "just" a number of "solar cells" catching light from a star. But there might be better ways to use a star's energy. Perhaps something like this? :

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480d45f717577

Or maybe the ultimate fate of any civilisation is to become like the Efficiency Maximization Paradigm. Ultimately beings like baseline humans, superiors and so on still have some kind of role to play in the OA universe scenario. But in real life this might not be the case. In real life, the existence in utopian virtual worlds might be the way to go. Any form of biological life could eventually evolve to become like the EMP or the Diamond Network and the Panvirtuality with their vast cybercosms and dedicated basement universes.