Interstellar Colonization Strategies (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Dark Forest Aliens and a Hostile Galaxy
This poses the strategy conflict of ultra-small ships that have the minimum necessary mass and resources to colonize versus behemoths that can do it in style. Now von Neumann or berserker probes are fine as a strategy but makes you wonder why they didn't start those replicators off here in this system. You drop it on an unused asteroid here not around Alpha Centauri and any one of the million or so asteroids in the belt could supply you with hundreds of millions of such probes. Assuming they're using fusion drives of some kind they have an even easier access to fusion fuel in larger amounts in system from places like Jupiter or Saturn.
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