roystgnr comments on Planets in the habitable zone, the Drake Equation, and the Great Filter - Less Wrong

11 Post author: JoshuaZ 01 October 2011 02:44AM

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Comment author: roystgnr 02 October 2011 06:16:40PM 4 points [-]

100,000 light years across; you may be thinking of 10,000 light years thick.

But in any case, small enough for an expansive civilization to colonize, slower than light using nothing more "speculative" than fission-based rockets, in a fraction of a percent of the age of the galaxy.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 October 2011 06:54:32PM 0 points [-]

Yes, thanks. That's what I was thinking of.