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It's conceivable that we could send the seeds of humanity and other terrestrial life — along with AI systems capable of raising it, terraforming the planet as necessary, and building a society.

We might not ever travel there or receive guests from New Earth any time in the foreseeable future, but it's fun to imagine that one day we could have a colony of distant pen pals separated by only 20 years of latency.



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