I am sure that we are not going to be the last universally intelligent species on earth, but what shocks me is that we are apparently the first.
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Good point :-) I'm not a materials scientist so just don't know how well plastics & integrated silicon will hold up in a dynamic environment over tens of millions of years. I poke at an SF story outline about this every now and then.
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If you read up on Danny Hillis' 10000 year clock, it seems depressingly difficult to keep dynamic function intact for more than a few hundred years. Ideally, we want to have a cascade of things that can self-assemble from a fully inert dormant state after Millions of years.
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