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For anyone interested in this topic, I went back and looked at the earliest von Neumann feasibility paper recently, and came away wondering… what if we are the
by genmon 4y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, I went back and looked at the earliest von Neumann feasibility paper recently, and came away wondering… what if we are the von Neumann probes
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- Tepix 4y agoA civilization capable of building von Neumann probes would likely be much more advanced than ours. Chances are all life that we see in our solar system has been planted by a passing von Neumann probe. The odds that this life develops into a technological civilization that builds more probes eventually are deemed high enough. Perhaps even more so once the technology has advanced enough to discover and decode the forefather's message in all DNA...