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Civilization is a believed concept. Physically taking all of your people with you does not equate to maintaining civilization.
by coderintherye 5y ago
Civilization is a believed concept. Physically taking all of your people with you does not equate to maintaining civilization.
- ryandrake 5y agoThis thread is reminding me of one of my favorite Clarke books, which partially explores this theme: The Songs of Distant Earth [1]. Is there such thing as a singular human civilization, once it become split by great distances and millennia? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth
- rbanffy 5y agoIt’s an excellent book. Mike Oldfield made an excellent soundtrack for it, and Clarke wrote the insert for the disk.
- nerpderp82 5y agoHumanity will diverge as soon as we have off Earth reproduction.