Re:Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:31AM
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...unless the probes reconstitute them upon arrival?
Re:Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
by ansible on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:50PM
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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?
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.