Say we found an artifact or piece of technology that wasnt created by humans. How would we go about reverse engineering it? How do technology companies reverse engineer competitors ideas?
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Start with what you know about the thing. If it’s a rival computer chip design you already know a *lot* about it. What it does, how it works, most of what’s inside of it. This makes things relatively easy. You may analyze the chemicals in it, you may study the shape of the leads in the chip with some sort of scanning machine like an x-ray or a microscope.
If it’s a random object you found on an alien spaceship then you know almost nothing about it. Is it even made of earthly materials? What is its purpose? If you can’t answer questions like this you’ll never be able to reverse engineer it, the best you can do is poke around until you stumble across something.
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