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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Meeting Advanced Aliens
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 16:09:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 16:09:33 1985
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> (f)   FTL travel is impossible.  Inter-stellar travel requires the colony
>       ship approach or suspended animation.  Everything is subject to
>       relativistic effects like time dilation.  This makes exploration
>       much more difficult and time-consuming.  It just so happens we
>       haven't been found yet; indeed, many races may decide that
>       inter-stellar colonization is economically pointless and may do
>       their best to live at home.

Not a valid argument. All it takes is one race... in fact if nothing else
stops us we'll have the entire galaxy colonised in a million years, even
without FTL. A million years is nothing to the age of the universe.
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