Intergalactic Voyages (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Fermi Paradox
If we had instant FTR travel or at a speed so fast as to essentially be permitting intergalactic travel in days or maybe years, not geological epochs, and that is entirely possible if FTL exists at all. In the absence of that, your best bet is going to be to run your ship up to speed along a long chain of laser highway pushing devices. Longer is better but you do get diminishing returns. So realistically I think maybe a few hundred light years is your practical limit to organize and incentivize participation - something Earth itself might opt to be the center of.
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