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Originally Posted by Hesla
The paradox with space travel is that in theory we could always send out faster ships later that travel quicker than previous iterations. Basically ships 200 years from now could overtake ships that we sent out now etc. So at what point do we send out interstellar space robots/ships etc..
It is likely that within the not too distant future we have space ships that overtake and pass voyager for instance.
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I think the main idea is that we want to get humanity off the planet as soon as possible so that if we destroy earth, there will be some form of us left in a different solar system.
The videos I posted didn't have anything to do with people actually sitting on space ships or anything, just an idea about a way to colonize the galaxy over thousands of years. I brought it up because we're possibly not
that far off from being able to do it for real, and if we can do it, another intelligence could possibly do it also, which would be much easier for us to detect, or us to come in contact with. If another intelligence is spreading exponentially, maybe they'll just show up in our solar system one day.
But yeah, I know what you're talking about, but I think for us as a people, it's better to get off earth sooner rather than later.