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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/22/2025 2:39 AM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 9/21/25 8:25 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> I would have to take issue even with unmanned space probes, all of   
   >> which require some energy to function, even if they are sitting in   
   >> standby mode.  Even the PCBs in the spacecraft will degrade over time,   
   >> as it would take tens of thousands of years for one to travel the   
   >> distance to the nearest star (other than our Sun), Proxima Centauri.   
   >> When (and if) such a probe arrived, it would be completely dead.   
   >   
   > I was always thinking along those same lines, then someone talked about   
   > some freaki SciFi concept where you grow your tech...   
   >   
   > It's not far fetched even right now. Though maybe not super hightech.   
   >   
   > Biology lasts far longer than technology. Bacteria has survived dormant,   
   > it is believed, long enough to reach other galaxies at velocities we   
   > are capable of even today...   
   >   
   > So the idea would be to maybe do a combination of growing and dormancy.   
   > So your biotech can not only survive but be in operation. And you might   
   > even do something funky, like the first generation produce a biproduct   
   > that is going to sustain the second generation, sort of like how the   
   > anaerobic bacteria farted oxygen which ended up poisoning them, but   
   > was used by Gen II life forms... something like that.   
   >   
   > I remember how, a billion years ago, someone on a documentary (I think)   
   > said that if you asked Leonardo di Vinci to build a tv set he could   
   > never do it, because he'd try to do it mechanically. THAT WAS HIS   
   > WORLD! That's how he approached problems, tried to solve them. We are   
   > currently in that phase with our hightech as opposed to biotech.   
   >   
      
   Time will, of course, tell!   
      
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