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1 posted on 07/26/2024 12:05:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 07/26/2024 12:06:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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So if we went at the max warp (warp 9.975 or 3,053 times the speed of light), we could be there in 20 million /3053 = 6551 years.

Can we use replicator machines to build new star ships to house the surplus population growth while we travel?

Assume we start with a crew of 1000 people (Enterprise was 1014 give or take a red shirt or two).

And assume we grow the population at a 1% annual growth rate (Historical human growth rate peaked at 2%). They have advanced health care, won’t run into many hostile aliens in intergalactic space, and presumably can avoid civil war.

We would arrive in 6500 years with a population after 6500 years of compound growth at 1% of ≈1.2×10^31.

And we would have built 1.2x10^28 enterprise class star ships to hold that population.

How big of an invasion force do we need for a whole galaxy?


6 posted on 07/26/2024 1:24:21 PM PDT by DannyTN
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A beautiful spiral.👍🔭


7 posted on 07/26/2024 1:29:47 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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