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...in the coming TransNeptunian War of 2217... If we don't achieve a technological singularity in the next couple decades, I doubt that an alien invasion will
by ansible 9y ago
...in the coming TransNeptunian War of 2217...
If we don't achieve a technological singularity in the next couple decades, I doubt that an alien invasion will be a worry a couple centuries from now. I say this because of impending ecological collapse, which will end human civilization as we know it... if not humanity in total.
And I'll save for another time a rant about how expensive it is for anything to cross interstellar distances. At most we'll see a self-replicating probe that tries to subsume all matter in the solar system, the "invaders" won't physically travel here.
- JoeAltmaier 9y ago...unless the probes reconstitute them upon arrival?
- ansible 9y agoThat could happen, but I judge it more likely they'd just live as software instead of physically instantiating into something you'd see on a SF TV show. And even as software, I predict that new colonists would likely arrive by communications laser, well after the local infrastructure has been built. Why bother coming over during the boring building phase?