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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 21 December 1996

From Glyn Watkins

Bradford, West Yorkshire

What would any sentient life form gain from spending a large proportion of
its gross solar system product on building a machine whose whole function was to
eat other solar systems and reproduce itself?

How would the machine increase the life form’s wealth or even its chances of
survival? Because if it doesn’t, there’s no reason to build it.

Issue no. 2061 published 21 December 1996

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