...turns out those who survived managed to do so by hibernation...a few have started taking visitors...
A mechanism was left in place to monitor and control the flock...an artificial intelligence (nothing new under the sun). The "commands" were/are symbols. I suspect it's nature is being exposed by our "new AI" as the several thousand-year-old device comes to it's planned termination date.
Are they in Antarctica?
...turns out those who survived managed to do so by hibernation...a few have started taking visitors... A mechanism was left in place to monitor and control the flock...an artificial intelligence (nothing new under the sun). The "commands" were/are symbols. I suspect it's nature is being exposed by our "new AI" as the several thousand-year-old device comes to it's planned termination date.