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		coldtea 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where did all the starships go? Nothing about Tau Zero refutes what the parent wrote. It reinforces it. Plus, even Tau Zero's initial premise is a pipe dream.

klez 26 days ago | [–]

> even Tau Zero's initial premise is a pipe dream

You mean Sweden as a world superpower? :P

davedx 25 days ago | [–]

Have you read the book?

They travel across the known universe in less than the span of a human lifetime.

OP said "tens of thousands of years of travel".

Or are you being deliberately obtuse about relativistic time dilation?

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