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Imagine there was one, or even a dozen such probes in our solar system right now. Would we notice?
by caf 9y ago
Imagine there was one, or even a dozen such probes in our solar system right now.
Would we notice?
- pklausler 9y agoBriefly, until the Earth was gobbled up for material to make new self-replicating interstellar probes. Evolution would ensure that the probes would be voraciously reproducing as quickly as physically possible.
- caf 9y agoThe numerical argument that the age of the galaxy gives sufficient time that it should be well-covered with probes seems reasonable. However, extending that argument to "...and the various probes will have then competed in a Darwinian struggle leaving only a few voracious survivors causing a galactic-scale grey-goo scenario." does not seem especially well supported.