_rpd comments on Estimating the probability of human extinction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoerenE 19 February 2016 08:16:47PM 0 points [-]

Wow. It looks like light from James' spaceship can indeed reach us, even if light from us cannot reach the spaceship.

Comment author: _rpd 19 February 2016 09:39:18PM 1 point [-]

Yes, until the distance exceeds the Hubble distance of the time, then the light from the spaceship will red shift out of existence as it crosses the event horizon. Wiki says that in around 2 trillion years, this will be true for light from all galaxies outside the local supercluster.