[ecksor]

"the universe appears lifeless not because complex life is unusual but, rather, because it is always somehow thwarted before it becomes advanced enough to colonize space."

The universe appears lifeless because it is a Dark Forest. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest

[ajmurmann]

That was a great book. My only issue was the phoney science around locating where a signal comes from.