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		bottled_poe on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and ... Branching factor of two means around 30 hops to visit every star.

pmontra on Dec 20, 2022 [–]

2^30 probes at the final hop. Maybe those FTL ships will turn out to be cheap to build like in Vance's Demon Princes novels.

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