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4 seems likeliest. Interstellar colonization is simply impossible because of the vastness of the distance that must be covered. It requires more energy than c
by Pxtl 12y ago
4 seems likeliest. Interstellar colonization is simply impossible because of the vastness of the distance that must be covered. It requires more energy than can be summoned to get a useful amount of hardware across multiple lightyears.
- tnaro 12y agowell to be fair, purely theoretically, you "just" need to accelerate once (and be able to hit the brakes many many many years later!) and find a way to sustain (food, water, air) yourself on a spaceship. Then a colonization flight might very well take serveral hundred to thousands years in the beginning. A bit like the general idea of the recently aired tv show Ascension.
- ericb 12y agoAt a certain point, if you can make a self-replicating machine, with harvested solar energy for travel, you would expect that machine's descendants to slowly get everywhere intended.