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In reply to the discussion: New model predicts that we're probably the only advanced civilization... [View all]hunter
(38,301 posts)... who never physically travel at all, but communicate on side channels of the physical universe unobservable to human beings and other highly mobile and impatient creatures such as ourselves.
To these sorts of beings traveling would involve expanding their awareness beyond themselves, beyond their home planet, maybe even sharing consciousness with creatures similar to themselves on distant planets.
Heck, maybe they even have the power to drop asteroids on planets where evolution doesn't seem to be favoring creatures such as themselves, a sort of hard biological reset to planets where evolution has gone "wrong" from their sessile plant-like perspective..
Good bye dinosaurs. Maybe good bye humans for destroying the natural environments of potentially intelligent plants or sessile animals.
Maybe the beauty of this universe is this "speed" of light that is absolute, with no loopholes allowing FTL warp or jump drives. This acts as a quarantine for impatient creatures such as ourselves and perhaps favors a kind of intelligence that needs no spaceships to "be" somewhere else.