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Originally Posted by S3XPanther
I'm not sure how accurate the whole CPU thing is. I mean, I would like to believe that humans were ingenious enough to develop such tech. I don't know if I buy into the whole "all of our tech stems from their tech" yet.
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If you look into the history of science & technology, it becomes pretty clear that all these big leaps were really just a series of innovations that built off one-another. Microchips are, fundamentally, collections of tiny little transistors. Transistors in turn are tiny little switches which were first patented sometime in the 1920's, and became practical devices in the 1940s. It doesn't really make much sense to me that an interstellar alien spacecraft would have computing technology that has anything in common with computing technology that existed on earth in the 1940s.
To think of it another way: transistor based microprocessors have been around for about 40 years. Sometime in the next few decades we'll probably have practical quantum computers, quickly making transistor based computers obsolete. I don't know how far ahead interstellar travel would be for humans, technology wise. But its pretty safe to figure that its probably going to be some time after a new technology makes quantum computers themselves obsolete. That would mean that there would be at least 2 major technology leaps between the computers onboard our future interstellar spacecraft & what our first microchips were like. Reverse engineering that level of future-tech into a microchip doesn't make any sense. It would be like a finding a laser blaster, and developing a bow & arrow from it.