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Re:Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Na... by Arch485 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @04:23AM (#42459833)
Interstellar travel solves the "finite resources" problem. Granted, intrastellar travel can do that as well: Earth's moon first for its H3, then use that as a launchpad to go other places for resources that are limited or running out on Earth (iron, silicon, gold, etc.).
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Re:Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Na... by littlestymaar on Thursday December 19, 2024 @04:35AM (#42459899)
People vastly underestimate how big space is: by the time you do a round trip to your next-solar-system-resource-storage then the shortage it was supposed to address is no more (because society has adapted) and all the people who planned the expedition in the first place are long dead.

Space is big, inhospitable and mostly empty, its size doesn't work with the time frame the human species is working on.

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