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Communication is still a problem. A colony 5 light years away means 10 years before you get a response. For all intents and purposes most colonies will be ind
by awb 3y ago
Communication is still a problem.
A colony 5 light years away means 10 years before you get a response.
For all intents and purposes most colonies will be independent and unable to act efficiently in unison with other colonies towards a strategic objective.
Similar to how humans migrated out of Africa and then discovered each other again after they had created different cultures, belief systems and ways of living.
- stcredzero 3y agoCommunication is still a problem. Not for carpeting a galaxy with descendants of humans.
- awb 3y agoRight, but how could colonies over such great distances have any meaningful commonality or purpose? Homo Sapiens evolved ~300k years ago. The Milky Way is ~100k light years across. It’s possible you’d have different species colonizing different sectors of the galaxy. And those species might be just as likely to compete with each other rather than cooperate.