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Morituri:
Is a calzone just a rolled-up pizza?
As I see it if solar system colonization is viable, then galactic colonization is inevitable. Solar systems fade into one another around the outer edges and swap items all the time. So if you get people who live out between planets, then sooner or later they are people who live between stars. As generations pass, ordinary operations like mining the next rock or building the next habitat, bring them into contact with different solar systems than the one their ancestors started in. At some settlement out in the Oort cloud, a one meter per second difference in vector takes you out of the Sun's orbit entirely. So even if nobody breaks lightspeed, and even if nobody ever launches a colony ship, and even if nobody ever sets out on a multi-lightyear journey, a few thousand years sees their descendants at neighboring stars.
For that matter if they want to make the trip in a single lifespan,why bother with breaking physics for FTL travel? Life extension is far more achievable, doesn't cost stupid amounts of energy, and is something people want even if they don't intend to travel interstellar distances.
So anyhow... yeah, I think it will have to happen the 'slow' way, but that's not even in the slightest a reason why galactic colonization won't happen.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 Dec 2021, 10:08 ---For that matter if they want to make the trip in a single lifespan,why bother with breaking physics for FTL travel?
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What fun would interstellar travel be if you're *not* breaking the law?
LeeC:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 Dec 2021, 10:08 ---Is a calzone just a rolled-up pizza?
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Kind of, but minus the sauce. Although most people tend to dip it into sauce (usually marinara).
sitnspin:
I think you are both vastly underestimating the distances involved and vastly overestimating how long any civilisation can/will last.
Farideh:
--- Quote ---Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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