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This would be an interesting premise for a science fiction story. You could imagine a species realizing that the only way to survive long term is to keep hoppin
by dividefuel 4y ago
This would be an interesting premise for a science fiction story. You could imagine a species realizing that the only way to survive long term is to keep hopping to new star systems every billion or so years. And when they get ready to hop to another system for the first time, they realize almost all the viable star systems are already colonized by past species who came to the same conclusion
- brotchie 4y agoGreg Egan’s Incandescence is along these lines except replace star in the trail of a black hole with asymmetric asteroid around a black hole accretion disk.
- askvictor 4y agoI read that, but have either forgotten, or missed the entire black hole thing. I think, for any given Egan novel, I miss about half of the ideas while trying to wrap my head around the other half, but he's still one of my favourite authors.