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Old 11-18-2013, 11:13 AM
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I read a story like that once. There was some bit of message delivery technology that that was on a mission but had trouble and got stranded on a primitive planet. But it had the ability to take the dumb bird critters that were there and genetically engineer them into a flock that (over time) built the industry to build a spaceship so the message could get through.
I read one long ago where the alien taught tech to build a way to get to a meeting point. Probably a fairly common plot?

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