Quote:
Originally Posted by Laurent Quinn Proper
If this were the case, the civilization would still be doomed. Either because of the tremendous amount of time needed to establish a connection to another planet or because of the tremendous amount of time need to travel to said planet.
Even if the civilization had some kind of "new" space travel method, the distance and time would still be immense. It isn't like cutting a few hours off of a road trip. Instead, it would be like cutting a few million years off of a billion year travel time.
|
So you just sit and die on your dying planet, or do you build a ship capable of traveling fast enough and sustaining life long enough to hopefully bump into another suitable planet?
If your species is going to end anyway, I think an intelligent life form would choose the latter based solely on a higher probability of survival for the long term.
And that's assuming they'd spent millions of years as an advanced civilization and somehow didn't have any knowledge of the probability of sustainable planets outside their own galaxy...