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Comment author: bogdanb 12 July 2013 12:53:51AM *  5 points [-]

colonising "the closest galaxies" gives us far more resources to put towards research.

The closest galaxy is more than 11 million light-years away. If after 10 million years of research you still didn’t reach high enough speeds to get most of the universe, you’re not doing it right.

ETA: Sorry, that’s about 1.6 million, not sure where I got that 11. And of course there are dwarfs that satellites of the Milky Way which are a bit closer. I think my point stands.