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If anything ever does visit us, long odds are it is spam. Very clever spam.
by moloch-hai 4y ago
If anything ever does visit us, long odds are it is spam. Very clever spam.
- andrewstuart 4y agoIt would be disappointing if it was an ad for one weird trick for growing your hair back.
- moloch-hai 4y agoWorse if it was for growing back genital tentacles. And, self-executing.
- api 4y agoVon Neumann spam? Imagine a religious order like the space Mormons in the Expanse creating a self replicating evangelism bot. A few billion years later nothing in the galaxy with more brain power than a mouse can get through life without being asked if it wants to hear about another testament of Jesus Christ. We do help seed millions of other advanced civilizations though since when they become smart enough they are able to learn a ton by reverse engineering some of the millions of dead probes littering their planet and every other celestial body. Their first messages into the cosmos are variations of “okay which one of you bastards did this?” Nobody is ever able to figure out the meaning of the probe’s message and humanity is long extinct. Not meaning to diss Mormons though. If anyone built a generational ship I can imagine them doing it.