# 12662 bywlm_efn@... on Sept. 18, 2012, 3:19 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
The next step beyond interstellar travel. I've seen virtually nothing on this topic.
day knowledge of physics:
1. Way stations. The space between the galaxies is not empty. Within
the local group, there may be about a billion stars out in inter-
galactic space.
2. A planet-sized ark, going on a *long* journey at some percentage
of the speed of light.
3. Stars get ejected from the centers of galaxies at *large* speeds,
up to 1000 km/s, by the supermassive black holes at the centers. Find
one traveling in the right direction, and the right kind, and hop into
an orbit around it.
# 12663 byjwsmith42000@... on Sept. 18, 2012, 3:35 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
That sounds reasonable but first we have to get some where else.
In a message dated 9/18/2012 11:19:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wlm_efn@... writes:
The next step beyond interstellar travel. I've seen virtually nothing on
this topic.
It could be done, I've considered, these ways, without using present-
day knowledge of physics:
1. Way stations. The space between the galaxies is not empty. Within
the local group, there may be about a billion stars out in inter-
galactic space.
2. A planet-sized ark, going on a *long* journey at some percentage
of the speed of light.
3. Stars get ejected from the centers of galaxies at *large* speeds,
up to 1000 km/s, by the supermassive black holes at the centers. Find
one traveling in the right direction, and the right kind, and hop into
an orbit around it.
# 12664 bylucioc@... on Sept. 18, 2012, 4:17 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
4. We can just wait for other galaxies to come to us. They collide "all the
time", each few hundreds of millions of years, and likely a galactic
civilization will be kind of immortal...