The Great Ongoing Space Exploration Thread

[LSLGuy]

We have quite a good thread on all aspects of Drake, etc. Perhaps best not to launch that convo in here.

This was started in 2022, revived in 2024, then again a couple months ago. This ref is to the first Oct 2025 revival post:

Have we reached the point when it is kooky to not believe in massive amounts of intelligent life having evolved throughout the universe?

Just resurrecting this zombie as there was a really interesting study which proposes that an advanced civilisation might want to live in what it calls a “red frame environment”: an area with heavy time dilation which would therefore allow it to explore outwards in a way that synchronises the rate of passing time. They could position objects in and out of different reference frames to exploit time dilation to build resources or advance their technology very quickly. And it gives them time to adv…