Ok say they’re star faring “smart sensors”. Travel for 100s, 1000s of years maybe self-repairing could go on indefinitely maybe. Do they report back? If they do still limited bt the speed of light. Do they just collect data just for the sake of collecting it like Vger?
As Rumsfeld once said, “we know what we know”, and” we know what we don’t know” and then there is the” we don’t know what we don’t know.” 50 years ago, we didn’t know what we know now, I am sure we don’t know what we will know 100 years from now.