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Trivial and possible are the same. If colonization is possible it will eventually be mastered and then you get geometric growth. Covid has given us all a quic
by Pxtl 6y ago
Trivial and possible are the same. If colonization is possible it will eventually be mastered and then you get geometric growth. Covid has given us all a quick refresher course on the nature of geometric growth.
On the timescale of the universe, geometric growth in colonization is functionally hyper rapid.
So either colonization (and thus, geometric growth) is impossible or there's nobody else out there.
- tsimionescu 6y agoWell, if establishing colonies and moving from one star system to the next is possible, but takes a few hundred million years each time, then it wouldn't be surprising in any way if even the 'first' civilization to arise has barely colonized a handful of star systems. Perhaps in a few hundred billion years the universe will indeed be full of colonies.