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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (13211)1/2/2007 9:12:18 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217936
 
It's just the writer's guess. I personally don't feel qualified to even venture one.

I do agree with his conclusion which, of course is a product of his guess. It bears repeating:

Moreover, this brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe: the one when its meaningful future gets decided. We'll have the technology to either self-destruct or to seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt that we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another century. If we end up going the life route rather than the death route, then in a distant future, our cosmos will be teeming with life that all traces back to what we do here and now. I have no idea how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.



To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (13211)1/2/2007 9:19:06 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217936
 
You can traverse our galaxy in a couple million years using spacecraft that travel at 5% speed of light. A couple of million years is nothing in terms of the age of the galaxy or the age of our solar system.