On my “things I’m worried about” list, this possibility ranks just below the lack of trans-gendered bathrooms in Portland Oregon.
Yes, seems far-fetched, doesn’t it? I mean, if they are a billion years ahead of us technologically, they ought to be able to download their viruses directly to those wrinkly computers between our ears. Why bother with, what to them, must be primitive silicon-based technology?
It always gets me when people talk seriously about that ridiculous claim that a 100 billion years from now advanced “people” will be able to build a computer as large as the universe itself, using all the matter and energy in the univere, and resurrect everything that ever lived with it. Now, I do not know what the future will bring, but I can pretty much guarantee that the most awesome or wonderful or frightening or useful technology around in those far-distant days isn’t going to have anything to do with something primitive man (and that’s how we’ll be viewed) invented in 1950.