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From Scientific American, September 13, 2017
It's hardly the almost pressing delineate of piece of job organization for Earth, but in that place powerfulness live a agency to forewarn ourselves

Given the electrical flow soil of our abode planet, together with indeed our species, it tin look a fighting surplus to needs to speculate on whether extraterrestrials are going to i 24-hour interval come upward together with swallow us (or, well, yous know, do anything every bit unpleasant).

Nonetheless, the inquiry of whether there's anyone or anything 'out there' that powerfulness e'er present upward to effort problem does look to come upward unopen to again, together with again, together with again. For example, it's teach a fighting of a perennial topic for Stephen Hawking to mention, together with he's non solitary with serious scientists inwards speculating on the upshot of whatever such encounter.

As with whatever seek to decode the probable idea processes or intents of only hypothetical lifeforms, the options are - shall nosotros say - fairly loosely constrained.

I do concur with Hawking's full general thinking that if a species goes to all the problem of project interstellar locomote itself (rather than sending robotic scientific probes) the chances are that it wants to a greater extent than than a few prissy anecdotes for the side past times side edition of the Really Lonely Planet Guide to the Galaxy. 
But opposite to many Hollywood-style sci-fi tales, I uncertainty that what an alien species needs are most of the commons tropes: H2O (what, i of the almost abundant compounds inwards the cosmos?), human slaves (seriously, yous tin traverse interstellar infinite together with yous postulate slaves?), or some mystical 'life-force' to live drained from us all (no, only no). ...MORE
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When the Time Comes, Will You Be Ready To Rebuild Civilization?
Yes yous volition !!
With the Global Village Construction Set:...

...You'll live able to extract alumina from clay to electrolyze into aluminum to brand darn close anything, grow, harvest, manufacturing flora together with bake your ain food, harvest together with refine biofuels, plough trees into houses, construct a still, communicate with radios together with much much, more!
"In a post-apocalyptic world, which chore would yous assign the highest priority? Locating a sustainable nutrient source, re-establishing a performance government, procreating, or preserving the cognition of mankind?" *
*The bit of Sheldon Cooper's 3 barriers, 'Each to a greater extent than daunting than the last.'
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Daunting? Sure it is. If it were tardily everyone would live rebuilding civilizations. As The Economist seat it inwards their prepper issue, piece patently channeling Gloria Gaynor:...

But that's non all! Here's the "Open-sourced blueprints for civilization" TED talk:
Using wikis together with digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for l farm machines, allowing anyone to construct their ain tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the offset mensuration inwards a projection to write an didactics laid for an entire self-sustaining hamlet (starting cost: $10,000). 
You read that right, teach started for as niggling as 10 yard dollars! 

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