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Comment author: Alicorn 21 August 2009 09:04:50PM 2 points [-]

6) Faster than light travel is not physically possible, the other civilizations all originated far away, and the other civilizations are all composed of people who don't like to live in generational spaceships their entire lives.

Comment author: Simon_Jester 22 August 2009 01:26:19AM 0 points [-]

This is my hypothesis (3c), with an implicit overlay of (3a).