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What enables a species to safely travel between stars or even galaxies? | What enables a species to safely travel between stars or even galaxies? | ||
Space is a dangerous place: as an alien you have to master all kind of biotechnologies to repair your cells destroyed by high-energetic cosmic rays or by accidents. In worst case you have to replace whole limbs and organs. | Space is a dangerous place: as an alien (or human) you have to master all kind of biotechnologies to repair your cells destroyed by high-energetic cosmic rays or by accidents. In worst case you have to replace whole limbs and organs. Or grow a new crew or a swarm of new work drones ... | ||
The ship has to be repaired as well from time to time. Meteoroids and even micrometeoroid can penetrates the ship and inflict huge damage. For strong and self-repairing materials, machines and electronics you have to master nanotechnologies. | The ship has to be repaired as well from time to time. Meteoroids and even micrometeoroid can penetrates the ship and inflict huge damage at these insane velocities. For strong and self-repairing materials, machines and electronics you have to master nanotechnologies. | ||
Bio and nano techs are completed by powerful computing techs which in turn require a global society to collaborate. ( | Bio and nano techs are completed by powerful computing techs which in turn require a global society to collaborate. (In an sufficient way. Because a totally peaceful life form might evolve too slowly due to the lack of competition which acts as a catalyst for artificial evolution.) | ||
Also you have to be able to process any matter and in worst case you have to transform matter by the means of fission and fusion. | Also you have to be able to process any matter and in worst case you have to transform matter by the means of fission and fusion. | ||
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Say, you want to produce new oxygen after an accident or you spare parts but the required type of matter isn't available. Either you can transform matter or you die. | Say, you want to produce new oxygen after an accident or you spare parts but the required type of matter isn't available. Either you can transform matter or you die. | ||
If any tech is insufficient then the space | If any tech is insufficient then the interstellar space trip will fail. At the point where an alien is able to travel in person to planet Earth its society has mastered all the required technologies - but that also means they don't need our resources. They just could go anywhere, terraform any dead planet and avoid the hostile contact with humans. If it is just about matter you can fly to your home star, collect plasma and cool it down. | ||
The only logical reason such capable species would seek the contact with others is knowledge acquisition, may it be cultural or scientific. A predator behavior - that denies the probable ethics necessary to collaborate and therefore being able to reach other worlds - should be a statistical anomaly or at least very unlikely. | The only logical reason such capable species would seek the contact with others is knowledge acquisition, may it be cultural or scientific. A predator behavior - that denies the probable ethics necessary to collaborate and therefore being able to develop all the technologies and reach other worlds - should be a statistical anomaly or at least very unlikely. | ||
Ill-minded motivations based on absurd politics, philosophies or religions should be doomed to fail. | Ill-minded motivations based on absurd politics, philosophies or religions should be doomed to fail. | ||
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A interstellar travel puts your very nature to a test. You cannot argue with nature. Either you are true or you are not. Space doesn't forgive any mistakes. | A interstellar travel puts your very nature to a test. You cannot argue with nature. Either you are true or you are not. Space doesn't forgive any mistakes. | ||
At least for "starters"... If an alien race has become so much advanced that space travel is foolproof then non-scientific aspects increase in weight again. In that case any alien youngster could devastate a planet. Hopefully their education would have improved as well. | At least for "starters"... If an alien race has become so much advanced that space travel is foolproof then non-scientific aspects increase in weight again. In that case any alien youngster could devastate a planet. Hopefully their education would have improved as well. There should be supervising AIs on board. | ||