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I see your point, but we don't know. A one in a million event happens about once a month (Littlewood's law). It might be that there are many more rocky wet worlds than we now think there are, but we dont know that either. But we do know FTL travel is also time travel. Being able to tug big telescopes and look back and study our own stages of civilization would in itself be pretty amazing.


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