The "alien starship wrecked on an asteroid" version of this is my preferred explanation for UFOshttps://twitter.com/the_twitr_acc/status/1404179029679280130 …
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There are two high-probablity hypotheses that I think we really underestimate because of the crackpot factor—panspermia (that life spreads between planets) and that space might be full of rusty old Voyagers
Like there's bacteria that live in deep rock under the seafloor, whose sex life improves when you centrifuge them at 400,000g (!), ones that are highly radiation resistant, some that can stay dormant for ages; there's bacteria that live in clouds. Seems worth a closer look to me.
every time i consider this, i also think about how fucking large the universe is. there's probably SO much crap floating around, some of it with intent, and i just hope we find some of it. anything. literally a dumpster full of space baby poop.
The odds of only seeing this kind of stuff in the atmosphere rather than in space seems really low though.
Yeah, I'm pretty frustrated we don't go chase that thing. Worst case it's a cool extrasolar asteroid.
The Nanotech Succession books by Linda nagata are very good on this theme. Space being full of weird old dangerous malfunctioning crap left behind by long dead civilisations.
Voyager being the only space probe outside our solar system seems unlikely
wasn't this the story line of that paperclip game?
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