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Yes, thank you, that’s essentially what I’m arguing against. There’s no reason galactic civilizations should continually progress especially when each settled s
by throwaway316943 5y ago
Yes, thank you, that’s essentially what I’m arguing against. There’s no reason galactic civilizations should continually progress especially when each settled system is effectively cut off from its parent by light years of distance.
- stubish 5y agoI think it will depend on how stable the culture is when it gets that far. Will our language become static, now we have the printing press and Netflix? We are still changing, where books and films from 80 years ago have not aged well due to social attitudes. But if it stabilizes, maybe the culture stabilizes, and maybe it can be stable enough for million year time frames. It might not even happen here.... maybe in a million years after the first colony or three has happened one of them will develop a culture capable of becoming galaxy spanning. I think it is worth noting that a new settlement will not be completely cut off from its parent. I imagine a new settlement around Alpha Centauri will be greedily consuming Earth media for quite some time, delayed by just a few years, until it progresses far enough for its own exotic drammedys to be consumed by Earth.