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aah, gotcha. Gee, you’d think in the eons they spent after settling on that new planet and sorting out their turf wars that they would have thought to maybe lau
by mygo 8y ago
aah, gotcha. Gee, you’d think in the eons they spent after settling on that new planet and sorting out their turf wars that they would have thought to maybe launch a ship with their advanced wormhole-hopping tech to collect earlier travelers who may still be traveling along that intergalactic path. If for any purpose other than studying how spending such a long time in space has affected them. But that would be too thoughtful or something.
- bilbo0s 8y agoI suspect we would learn to USE a technology like wormholes before we could reliably CREATE wormholes. A mission like you suggest would require us to create precisely calibrated wormholes. Which is quite a step beyond DISCOVERING a wormhole.
- mygo 8y agoNot sure who mentioned immediately launching a ship the day after landing, but I said sending out ships after colonizing, settling turf wars, advancing, etc. There’s no telling how advanced their ships or other tech would be at that point. How much would even 500 years do for space travel after they were already able to achieve such short-timespan intergalactic travel? I can’t fathom. Anyways, lots of ways to skin a cat. Making wormholes may be one way, but faster space ships, or controlling gravity, or teleportation, or some other fantastical exploit we haven’t even begun to imagine may be another.
- rurban 8y agoWormholes are nice, but putting yourself through a subatomic mixer will not persuade anybody to try that. You can try it with a conventional meat grinder at home, if you like that idea, as in "Fargo".