[jerf]

Yeah, it's on my list. My strategy is generally to wait until I can just mainline the entire season, so I tend not to watch the latest seasonals, but it's definitely on my list when the season is done.

In Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", a very advanced civilization in the outer galaxy that can't reach where we are for $REASONS has as a persistent hobby speculation on the fastest way to bootstrap advanced civilizations, assuming essentially-perfect knowledge of physics instead of blundering around.