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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by kiba on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:58AM (#13253590)
A dyson swarm does not require any new technology to develop, only the constant churning out of satellites. They do not need to be technologically superior to us.

In any case, we would still be ants compared to them.

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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by ageofwant on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:04AM (#13253718)
I dunno, a self-replicating swarm would by definition be technological superior to us, for the next few decades at least.
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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by kiba on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:14PM (#13255075)
You don't need a "self-replicating swarm" to build more satellites.

You just need to pump out lot of satellites.

There's nothing special about self-replicating "swarm", either.

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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by naasking on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:10PM (#13255904)
Automated self replication is pretty special. We don't have anything like that yet. All of our tech requires human intervention when it breaks down.
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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by abhishekkr on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:01PM (#13261014)
kiba above doesn't seem to know exponential growth. Self-replication leads to exponential growth. Creating more satellites here locally only gives you linear growth.
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