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Re:Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence by ansible on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:21PM (#14403759)
...in the coming TransNeptunian War of 2217...

If we don't achieve a technological singularity in the next couple decades, I doubt that an alien invasion will be a worry a couple centuries from now. I say this because of impending ecological collapse, which will end human civilization as we know it... if not humanity in total.

And I'll save for another time a rant about how expensive it is for anything to cross interstellar distances. At most we'll see a self-replicating probe that tries to subsume all matter in the solar system, the "invaders" won't physically travel here.

Re:Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence by JoeAltmaier on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:31AM (#14417529)
...unless the probes reconstitute them upon arrival?
Re:Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence by ansible on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:50PM (#14419258)
That could happen, but I judge it more likely they'd just live as software instead of physically instantiating into something you'd see on a SF TV show.

And even as software, I predict that new colonists would likely arrive by communications laser, well after the local infrastructure has been built. Why bother coming over during the boring building phase?