Comment on Open thread, Sept. 29 - Oct.5, 2014

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:45:20 GMT

The difference between not colonizing the galaxy and dying out completely is small enough that I'd consider this a subset of dying out, not an alternative.

The size of the universe is irrelevant. If it's bigger, there will be more intelligences to start with. Adding brane-hopping doesn't just mean that all the denizens of this universe will enter others. It also means that the denizens of other universes will enter this one. In fact, since it makes expansion easier, it would mean more alien colonization.

Dyson swarming doesn't have that problem, but they don't take very long on a galactic timescale.

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