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pokerfan

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Mon Apr-26-10 04:54 PM
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25. Not ego

If such civilizations exist, it would take a brief amount of time to populate an entire galaxy, perhaps only 10 million years, i.e. about 1/20 of the time it takes for the Milky Way to complete just one rotation and less than 1/1000 of the age of the universe. Life tends to expand to fill all niches, like a bacterial growth in a petri dish even if the petri dish is expanded to three dimensions:
e^x>>x³ for large x.
Such a galaxy would soon be teeming with life. Even if a given species had no interest in expansion, all it takes is one. It's fun to speculate about.

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