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How to Colonize the Galaxy

submitted by oblio70

8 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

What would it take for mankind to colonize the Galaxy? Theoretically, it cannot be done, sez Einstein. But prevailing theories once said we could not sail around the world, and yet we did. Later, theories told us the moon was out of our reach, and those were recanted. So how will we travel what takes light 4 years to traverse? Time will tell.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, August 5th, 2016 12:12am PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

So we send off a bunch of generation ships to other systems. In the interim we manage to implement FTL drives.
The generation ships arrive to find the planets fully settled and immigrants unwelcome.
Oh shit.

Danged space immigrunts, terkin' er jerbs!

*quality lols. Have a *promote also.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, August 5th, 2016 12:12am PDT - promote requested by lurgee.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lurgee.

Saying we can go to other stars because we went to the moon,is like saying we can swim the pacific,because I took a bath.

Or hitchhike aboard a star ship with an infinite improbability drive.

With the proper floaties and a technologically advanced cooler and other unspecified gadgets, sure...lt'd be possible, one day.

More seriously, though, I think the point is that we cannot accurately predict the limits of technological advances. New discoveries occur outside the imaginations of the *we* of today.

Saying we can go to other stars because we went to the moon,is like saying we can swim the pacific,because I took a bath.

Thought Cafe - Is Interstellar Travel Possible? has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine on that post.

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