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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by perihelions on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:13AM (#37478510)
Even simpler: you send out self-replicating AI drones in advance—to every star in the entire galaxy. That guarantees permanent security. The drones assess if alien intelligences have any potential to become a threat, and if so annihilates their planet, by autonomous decision.

Takes a few million years to set up... but that's just a blink of an eye on cosmic time scales; a brief era in the galactic-scale lifespan of an advanced civilization. (The civilizations that don't do something like this don't live that long).

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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by ajuc on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:39AM (#37478682)
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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by hermitcrab on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:38PM (#37485639)
Our sun isn't massive enough to supernova, thankfully.
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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by sgt on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:29AM (#37478608)
But those evolve later and come back to you, biting you in the ass.
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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by gsky on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:40AM (#37478690)
That's something we are very good at
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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by tigerlily on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:50AM (#37478771)
Huh, sounds like those Von Neumann probes from Star Control II
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Re:NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, ... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:07AM (#37478895)
We are the self-replicating drones.

It's taking a few million years to get from violent confused simians to violent confused simians with autonomous AI. But we're getting there.

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