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by pfdietz
865 days ago
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> And isn't that hypothesis extremely likely, given what we now know about the costs of _interplanetary_ travel and its relative ease compared to interstellar travel? Costs are a function of manufacturing productivity. What is the upper bound on manufacturing productivity? With automation and AI, I don't see any hard upper bound. The raw resources are certainly available to build starships. I mean, your share of per capita energy consumption over your life would be enough to accelerate your body to maybe 700 km/s, and that's with us just using a small fraction of the energy available on a planet; energy in space would be many orders of magnitude more abundant. |
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