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"Unaliened" probes are far more likely than EBEs given the extreme distances between stars. Hundreds to thousands of years flight time is a problem for any biol
by api 5y ago
"Unaliened" probes are far more likely than EBEs given the extreme distances between stars. Hundreds to thousands of years flight time is a problem for any biology even close to ours but an AI can just turn itself off during the trip.
It could be programmed to just observe and occasionally sample interesting biology and stream data back to home base.
- DennisP 5y agoThe study addresses this. If the objects can maintain their observed performance in space, then they could reach relativistic speeds so quickly that shipboard transit time between here and Alpha Centauri would be in the range of days to weeks.