I think about estimates of how long it would take a determined civilization to expand itself throughout the universe, and I ask myself --
Does cancer have fun?
@cerebrate relevant: http://reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com/2012/09/spreading-happiness-to-stars-seems.html?m=1
@niplav @cerebrate But why spread at all? Unless you can bypass the speed of light any exosolar colonies would have to be so autonomous as to be practically independent polities, which might decide to launch RKVs instead of tribute shipments.
a Schelling point for those who seek one
@niplav @cerebrate But why spread at all? Unless you can bypass the speed of light any exosolar colonies would have to be so autonomous as to be practically independent polities, which might decide to launch RKVs instead of tribute shipments.