Escaping The Galaxy
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Pros and Cons of Exploding a Galaxy
interstellar gas comes in a wide variety but six fairly distinct types. Over here, near the fringe, there's way less gas around for your exhaust to interact with which has pros and cons for detection as particles colliding with very high speed differences can give off a radiation signature. This can also be relevant to whether you're using a propulsive ramjet device which would work better in denser parts of the intergalactic medium. Arguably those regions where your better clote may simultaneously be regions you can accelerate harder assuming you can make a buser ramjet or black hole variant of one walk.
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