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with coldsleep technology, or a species evolved or self-engineered for ultralongterm hibernation, speed might not matter.
by marstall 3y ago
with coldsleep technology, or a species evolved or self-engineered for ultralongterm hibernation, speed might not matter.
- dekhn 3y agoHaving just finished Iain Banks excellent The Algebraist, this is immediately what came to mind: we have no idea what timescales aliens would operate on.
- keskival 3y agoMachines would be more likely than anything biological in any case. Not implying this is what we have here, just a general observation. It's weird people believe space travel requires pilots.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago> Machines would be more likely than anything biological in any case. Counterpoint: biology is a machine in itself. Our machines of metal and microchips are incredibly primitive compared to where they'll be in 100, 500, 1000, 10K+ years from now - and when a machine has the ability to to self-replicate, have autonomy, and to protect itself from microscopic threats, then it sure looks a lot like life-as-we-know it.