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Reminds me of the three body problem where the aliens can exert some kind of influence over a long distance but their own personal interstellar travel is a mult
by darepublic 6y ago
Reminds me of the three body problem where the aliens can exert some kind of influence over a long distance but their own personal interstellar travel is a multigenerational process. They basically send a zip file to earth that opens up into a virus once it gets here
- simonh 6y agoI think the Protomolecule is the Expanse is a physical analogue of the same idea. An organism-like nanomachine that can bootstrap itself into a sophisticated artefact given access to enough resources. Maybe rather that colonise the galaxy personally, we should concentrate on making panspermia real by just seeding it with life.