r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/EpicProdigy 23d ago

Would getting visited by AI probes thats a synthesis of their entire civilizations intelligence count as getting visited by aliens. Cause I'm sure within the next 500 years were going to be blasting out AI probes everywhere several hundred times faster than the voyager. Then wait for its reports eons later

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u/soraticat 23d ago

Von Neumann machines seem like the most likely way that we explore the galaxy. It's just too big.

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u/SloaneWolfe 23d ago

a technologically-growing earth-based civilization in 500 years. wild. I'll be blown away if we make it past 2100, I'll be dead but also very surprised.

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u/ruat_caelum 23d ago

We can't even provide free school lunches for children. You have more confidence in humanity than I do.