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Originally Posted by soreshins
and yes, acknowledge that it may not be a biological entity - it could be intelligent machines - but these would I think need to be preceded by a biological entity that could advance the technological process to such a state that it becomes self aware and self sustaining
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This idea actually has possibility - maybe even more than an organic life form.
Machines have many advantages over organic life, when it comes to space travel:
can withstand space
probably have a much longer 'lifespan'
remain more singularly focused on single tasks (in this case travelling near infinite distances)
and on and on
A species developing technology, and then that technology becoming sentient, and then replacing the original species, and then having the capacity for space travel, is actually a very plausible notion.
And of course, mind-numbingly frightening