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Board Politics & Society
Re: Fermi Paradox
by
blablahblah
on 01/10/2015, 18:05:48 UTC
https://youtu.be/sNhhvQGsMEc?t=57s


They always make the same mistake when talking about high-speed travel.
Really fast spaceships would appear to take billions of years to reach another galaxy, for observers stuck on Earth. However, the occupants in a relativistic spaceship could experience something completely different: their destination arrives at the blink of an eye, and it (the galaxy) undergoes accelerated ageing, while the passengers stay young.

It seems like a pretty bad side-effect of interstellar travel when everything else gets old around you. And every journey is a one-way trip into the unknown.