If we ever encountered alien technology, could we even reverse engineer it?

# Are there examples  of successful reverse engineering more “advanced” technology in history? Where are the limits?



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Suspended Animation

Colony Ships

Our collective purpose should be to expand our knowledge and capability

# Children of Time
Sci-fi book 
A large part of the plot is driven by [[Suspended Animation]], which allows multiple generations of evolution to occur during the lifetimes of individual humans. Also revolves around large [[Colony Ships]]. The spider colony uses [[Artificial Muscles as Linear Actuators]] and Ants as computers ([[Ani
Recommended by [[Sam Arbesman]]

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[Amazon.com: Children of Time (9780316452502): Adrian Tchaikovsky: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316452505/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581261868&sr=8-1)



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