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> It's like 2 grains of sand on a beach getting next to each other. Unless the grains of sand are "Grabby". An aggressively expansionist species (as in, one ne
by laverya 4y ago
> It's like 2 grains of sand on a beach getting next to each other.
Unless the grains of sand are "Grabby". An aggressively expansionist species (as in, one new colony per colony every 10,000 years) fills up a galaxy really remarkably quickly.
- roncesvalles 4y agoThere's also the dimension of time. Two such civilizations need to be both spatially and temporally proximal. One of the "explanations" for the Fermi Paradox is that humans are too far out from the temporal peak, i.e. too late or too early to the scene.