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by alchemist1e9 1062 days ago
I agree, likely no need for generation ships.

Another point I like to make is that the craft we observe, assuming we do, definitely do not need to be the actual interstellar craft, why would they be. We wouldn’t do it like that, why would they. Instead they could be local probes dispatched from another craft, or even local probes manufactured by the master probe.

Lastly, let’s assume we see mach 50 speeds on the craft, that’s still not a significant fraction of the speed of light.