/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15723334
>Maybe isolated colonies, but functioning interstellar society? Without pointing to sci fi works working through this idea, you see that we cannot even form a unionized global society without conflicts at each corner of the single planet we inhabit.
This is the case if you view war and conflict as dysfunctional, it seems to be a human norm at least.

>>15723432
>Plus Earth can leverage their tech as a bargaining chip
Britain probably thought they could leverage their tech over America in perpetuity too.

>>15723368
>if we set lightspeed as limit and comms in that cluster basically free then you will have constant dataflow between all nodes or something but they will all be delayed by lightspeed. clearly can't have a big boss council back on earth supervising everything. shit needs to happen differently, conceptually.
It apparently took 60 days for a message about the accession of a new emperor in Rome to reach Egypt, averaging ~50km a day. It's not something unknown to history, although the scale is.

>>15723334
>Maybe isolated colonies, but functioning interstellar society? Without pointing to sci fi works working through this idea, you see that we cannot even form a unionized global society without conflicts at each corner of the single planet we inhabit.
This is the case if the view war and conflict as dysfunctional, it seems to be a human norm at least.

>>15723432
>Plus Earth can leverage their tech as a bargaining chip
Britain probably thought they could leverage their tech over America in perpetuity too.

>>15723368
>if we set lightspeed as limit and comms in that cluster basically free then you will have constant dataflow between all nodes or something but they will all be delayed by lightspeed. clearly can't have a big boss council back on earth supervising everything. shit needs to happen differently, conceptually.
It apparently took 60 days for a message about the accession of a new emperor in Rome to reach Egypt, averaging ~50km a day. It's not something unknown to history, although the scale is crazy.