Escaping The Galaxy
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of FTL
The odds are we will have the technology to freeze, repair or digitize people before we actually launch our first interstellar colony ship. The need for a classic generation ship is likely to be greatly reduced. A post-biological crew might have a whole simulated world of a billion survivors on some ship no bigger than a modern rocket running on the electricity needed for one life support system. They might opt for slowly plotting out of the galaxy, ultra-slow and taking a hundred million years to look like a normal, injected rock. It is hard to imagine the civilization that killed them would still exist, let alone be searching after all that time.
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