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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

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Is It Possible That the Expansion of a Civilization Is Much Harder Than the Travel?

The time delay between when the first thing might arrive, and then when colonists could arrive is cosmologically short. So this is a computer science and colony optimization. It's true for ants. And well, throughout the stretch of several billion years that Earth existed, they could have been here often. so they could have filled the galaxy long time ago.

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