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But what if it's 0.5c travel?

That's a massive difference from 0.99c travel



Agree, visitors may have traveled for millions of years to get here. We should not project human timescales on aliens.

Humans as we know them today will never visit other galaxies, but our AI descendants almost certainly will.


If you have 20 million years and don't mind waiting, you can send probes to every system in the galaxy at sub-light speeds.




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