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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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch
Sooner or later we'll find the habitats the dinosaurs built on the moon. Or if we don't, the evolved crows that succeed us will.
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Replying to @That_MarcC @Grady_Booch
Why don't we find even a few booster stages? Or at least a few screws?
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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch
Earth environment too volatile--weathering, erosion, oxidation, tectonics--over last 65 million years. Lunar surface or, better yet, underground far more stable for preservation.
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Replying to @That_MarcC @Grady_Booch
Do you think that future intelligent species will excavate our bones but not our phones? We probably have more phones than bones now.
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Replying to @Plinz
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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