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Not just preserve our history, but spread it. Assuming these neigh-invulnerable wonders can survive the g-forces, we could mass-manufacture containers to store
by deftnerd 9y ago
Not just preserve our history, but spread it.
Assuming these neigh-invulnerable wonders can survive the g-forces, we could mass-manufacture containers to store tardigrades and launch them blindly into space with railguns. The containers would be designed so the g-forces of impact would crack them open.
When the very rare occasion happens where a container impacts a planet or moon, the tardigrades would be exposed to the environment. If it could support the basics of life, after a few thousand years, they would be present enough in the environment that any alien life that exists there or might develop there will eventually notice them.
If the tardigrade DNA contains a message from Earth, it might be discovered and decoded.
It could be the best way to ensure that our existence won't be forgotten in the scale of billions of years.
- MikkoFinell 9y agoYay lets tell unknown and potentially extremely hostile aliens all about us. It's like running unarmed into a jungle at night yelling and screaming.
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- sitkack 9y agoMaybe the message is already in the Tardigrade.
- vbuwivbiu 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5nY8qMbO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5nY8qMbO8
- jacquesm 9y agoMaybe it's already in us. We just lack the decoder ;)
- Zigurd 9y agoThe message is a chain letter: Your best bet for long term DNA survival is to put all your resources into encoding your civilization into tardigrade DNA and launching it into deep interstellar space, no matter if the effort collapses your civilization.
- lomnakkus 9y agoTrue, but what are birds[1]? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw
- notadoc 9y agoSounds like a good start to a sci-fi novel.
- fragsworth 9y agoThe problem is that they evolve, and eventually they will lose whatever data we encode into them because it costs resources for them to generate and reproduce it. A random mutation that erases our data would be a slight gain in efficiency.
- sunstone 9y agoMight want to package some plankton with that or they'll just end up eating each other.