Yeah and I’m not in the country. Gutted

Why Interstellar Expansion won't happen

Not actually the title of the video (Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel), but pretty much the same thing.

Number crunching on what it would take to send humans out into space to Promixa Centauri - and the results seem implausible. Extinction seems far more likely than exploration.

Boom!

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/...o-instruments/

Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE

I think it's so arrogant to think that we have a shot in hell of extrapolating technology like this, like this concept of a Dyson Sphere that we've thought of in the last 100 years, is something worth looking for on an interstellar scale.

We're so crazily limited by present day concepts that our best predictions of technology don't survive the smallest of technological breakthroughs, and yet there's still resources put into these efforts anyway, despite the overwhelming naivety that it represents.