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Skyskimmer
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Is it just me or homo sapien centric thinking is killing our imaginations. I mean in terms of populating the galaxy. People always get bummed out when there told it'll take thousands of years to see just a small part of the galaxy which does seem overwhelming.
However when you look at it in terms of life it's not overwhelming at all. It took humans about 10-20 thousand years to populate each continent that we know of. If homo habilis our ancestor 2-3 million years ago set out to the stars at 1/1000 th c, there would thousands of star systems with humanoids running arounds.
Now of course Homo habilis had no abilty to do such but from that prespective a genetically modifided humans could quite easily populate several hundred star systems within 100 thousand years.
I know this seems like some wierd science fiction idea, but so would us descending from monkeys100 years ago in the south(jk).
However when you look at it in terms of life it's not overwhelming at all. It took humans about 10-20 thousand years to populate each continent that we know of. If homo habilis our ancestor 2-3 million years ago set out to the stars at 1/1000 th c, there would thousands of star systems with humanoids running arounds.
Now of course Homo habilis had no abilty to do such but from that prespective a genetically modifided humans could quite easily populate several hundred star systems within 100 thousand years.
I know this seems like some wierd science fiction idea, but so would us descending from monkeys