The anthropic principle & Rakesh

[Daniel]

Dennis wrote: "According to Olaf Stapledon's "Starmaker", the cosmos is just
another
test-run of some gigantic polydimensional automobile manufacturer, which
sputtered and blew some gaskets before being shelved for newer, slicker
designs. Since I worship penguins, I've converted to dialectical
penguinism, myself."

But, this is not true. Actually, the Universe is a steady-state kind of
thing. The stars, of course, are merely remains - ruins, as it were, of
highly advanced civilizations much like our own, which, having attained a
knowledge of the atom, commenced to blow themselves up. This could be the
source of the inspiration that swells every natural human heart on gazing at
the night sky.

Quincy