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Aperockytoday at 5:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is fun to read but any such galactic intelligence would probably recognize that its predecessor were meat, probably kept the original meat safe in a corner of the galaxy too..

The universe were quite uniform in character. Galaxies, stars, they are very predictable and essentially the same everywhere, across billions of years (both time and distance), can't see why that doesn't apply to life too in a general sense. Maybe different RNA building blocks and genetic chemistry, but probably work out similar to meat and organic stuff.


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Espressosaurustoday at 5:53 PM

Thanks for doing a "well AKTually" on a piece of amusing fiction.

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justonceokaytoday at 5:50 PM

It’s called fiction for a reason. Glad you’ve risen above that nonsense!

I personally hate that it implies there are faster ways to travel than light speed. We know this to be a hard limit in the physics of our universe and it rubs me the wrong way when SF writers just glaze over reality. Not to mention hydrogen life forms, what’s that about!?

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