[quote]Think it’s hard to guess what an alien culture would do when it’s biological? Try extending the question to a post-singularity world made up of machines whose earliest ancestors were constructed by non-humans.[/quote]
If we ever encounter them we'll need to have backups.
Perhaps some kind of elaborate hoax where we pretend that our civilisation is post-singularity, and we have been taken over by machines too.
Wait, that wouldn't work so well now that I think about it ...
I just thought about... Imagine, what would happen if a few million years in the future, for example, Voyager I or II would arrive in an inhabited system, and it'd be a huge press sensation for the aliens and stuff.
what if our first "contact" with aliens is just space-trash?
read the killing star then you will get scared
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seriously
[QUOTE=cryticfarm;21994886]read the killing star then you will get scared
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seriously[/QUOTE]
I did, and :iia:
Here's the first part to get everyone interested and to get them to buy the book, because Charles Pellegrino needs more money:
[I]"For those few who lived to look back, the most fearsome deaths were the quickest. Those who did not survive the first human contact with the Intruders were alive in one moment, the billions of them, happy or unhappy, seeking new loves, leaving old loves behind, or chosing to be alone, building towards small dreams, large dreams, or having no dreams at all. And then, over an entire hemisphere of Earth their consciousness dissolved, as if they had been the dream of something alien suddenly awakening. The first ship came from the direction of Saggitarius, it came with fire in its belly and venom in its mind. It was an old ship, without a crew, only machines, small a crab-like, stood within its ceramic riggins . It came with Anti-Hydrogen tanks nearly empty, but this did not matter. It was never meant to decelerate into any solar orbit or to voyage home. At 92% of lightspeed the ship slipped through the Heliopause, one light day from the Sun."[/I]
- [I]The Killing Star[/I] by Charles Pellegrino and Geroge Zebrowski
Jane
[QUOTE=roflwaffle;21994865]what if our first "contact" with aliens is just space-trash?[/QUOTE]
That would be pretty exciting. At least we know that life exists out there and we get to observe a little piece of their technology. It's like their space trash was an old piece of technology that was more advanced than our current technology. We could take it, do some tests, and try to recreate what it did and stuff. It would be pretty cool to see the human race advance by several hundred years all from a small piece of alien junk.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;21887567]The Reapers are coming[/QUOTE]
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[b]Not on my watch.[/b]
I wish I had the money and skills to build automated spaceships that would mine the asteroids for resources to automatically construct space stations, and more ambitiously, terraform a planet.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21995426]I did, and :iia:
Here's the first part to get everyone interested and to get them to buy the book, because Charles Pellegrino needs more money:
[I]"For those few who lived to look back, the most fearsome deaths were the quickest. Those who did not survive the first human contact with the Intruders were alive in one moment, the billions of them, happy or unhappy, seeking new loves, leaving old loves behind, or chosing to be alone, building towards small dreams, large dreams, or having no dreams at all. And then, over an entire hemisphere of Earth their consciousness dissolved, as if they had been the dream of something alien suddenly awakening. The first ship came from the direction of Saggitarius, it came with fire in its belly and venom in its mind. It was an old ship, without a crew, only machines, small a crab-like, stood within its ceramic riggins . It came with Anti-Hydrogen tanks nearly empty, but this did not matter. It was never meant to decelerate into any solar orbit or to voyage home. At 92% of lightspeed the ship slipped through the Heliopause, one light day from the Sun."[/I]
- [I]The Killing Star[/I] by Charles Pellegrino and Geroge Zebrowski[/QUOTE]
I hate it when authors write like this
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