User blog comment:PitaKang/Funday Monday 3: What would an interstellar civilization look like?/@comment-5018798-20130526161210

Not sure if anyone has brought this up yet (there is a lot - I like this kind of stuff and I feel out of my depth). If humans can utilise solar sails and/or use generation ships then it would be possible to colonise other systems (concerns are ethical mostly). This will take time. If it gets to such an extent then medical science will also develop. Longer lifespan (vastly longer) prehaps means politics takes a longer view and therefore waiting a few years for transmissions would be ok as this is only a small amount of time, comparable to Austrailia to Britian communication by ship. That kind of arangement might concivebly work. Granted it would take a lot of advancements in medical knowledge... something like Turritopsis nutricula prehaps, but with less development loss?