travisoneill1

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   by travisoneill1 8y ago

   My point was in response to WilliamEdward above so really only dealing with showing that travel time is not a constraint. That said, your points are good, but knowing humans I think "Unrestrained colonization just because we can"
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   by travisoneill1 8y ago

   Seems like overkill for shooting down satellites. IIRC the US and China have already demonstrated this ability so I don't think it would add that much as a weapon.
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   by travisoneill1 8y ago

   Which is a very short amount of time for a species to be in existence. Alligators have been around for 2000x that amount of time. If you take a max speed of 0.01c which is possible with technology that we will probably have in the next 10