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48 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 September 2014 09:37PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 September 2014 02:43:55PM 2 points [-]

We argue that travelling between galaxies - let alone between stars is very "easy", for some values of "easy". See http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/intergalactic-spreading.pdf or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTfuI-9jIo&list=UU_qqMD08PFrDfPREoBEL6IQ

Major cosmical restructuring would be trivial (under the assumptions we made) for any star-spanning civilization.

Comment author: JoshuaMyer 18 September 2014 08:08:43PM *  2 points [-]

Thank you. Not entirely convinced, but at least I'm distracted for now by not knowing enough astrophysics. :-)