Yevaud333 wrote:
Sounds like
Dragon's Egg and
Starquake by the late
Robert L. Forward. Though I don't recall the life forms described therein having proceeded at quite that feverish a pace, the idea is similar. Very nice books; they have stuck in my mind for years as few others have.
Also related in my mind is the
Star Trek: Voyager episode
"Blink of an Eye" which reminded me of the aforementioned novels to such an extent that I doubt the resemblance was entirely coincidental. Of course, the
Star Trek version had all sorts of scientific inaccuracies and impossibilities woven in so as to be both palatable to the average viewer (who really seems to need aliens to be humanoid, for instance) and presentable within the one-hour-show format. (Please note that this commentary is not meant to bash on
ST:V; lord knows there are enough people who do that without my joining in, however much I may prefer the other series. They did a good job with the limited palette they had to work with, given the above constraints.)
You should read some Stephen Baxter books, I think you would like them. He does science fiction with a very heavy emphasis on science.
SquaredBowl wrote:
The rate that human race acquires knowledge is ever increasing. My question is one that many have asked before....
Can and will the human race will survive itself long enough to reap from the harvest of its knowledge?
Good question; consider this. How much of that knowledge is put into creating things to end the lives of other humans? How much that wasn't intended for that purpose ends up being used in that way?
I am rooting for the dolphins myself.