The Importance of Dark Energy in Interplanetary Space

Space is already so immense that even fully populated Dyson swarms with billions of times Earth's current population would have lower population densities than our deserts do. We could imagine some crazed cult seeking to sneak in the depths of space where their nearest neighbor might be weeks of communication lag and years of travel time from them. But we probably need to ask how this helps their goal any more than just huddling inside a typical near-soner in orbit of our sun, thousands of kilometers from a neighbor.

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