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		TeMPOraL on Nov 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress > If Von Neumann self-replicating probes are possible, doesn't that solve both distance/speed of light/time scale objection and imply probes should be here by now? We should've been seeing progressively more of them then, perhaps already been eaten by them.

pfdietz on Nov 13, 2024 [–]

Earth should have been eaten by them billions of years ago.

ben_w on Nov 15, 2024 | [–]

It was, and we are the goo.

Though if you mean "physically disassemble the Earth", conditional on us having not noticed them yet, there's this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01522

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