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		FrustratedMonky on Feb 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Grabby Aliens (2021) AI. Instead of FTL, or FTL communication lines, or forms of suspended animation. The ships that are sent out could be run by an AI. Maybe the ships are factory ships to self-replicate. The Grabby could be more like Blindsight.

cryptonector on Feb 12, 2024 [–]

Yes, but then each colony is independent and disconnected from the mother ship. There are people who say that... that's what we are on Earth: a colony started by aliens.

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