... why does it take millions of years to fill the galaxy with
sentient life...
The galaxy is one hundred thousand light years across. At 1% light
speed, i.e., 3000 km/sec or 1860 miles per second, that is ten million
years. At one-tenth that, i.e., at 0.1% light speed that is
one-hundred million years.
We humans have a hard time going at 30 km/sec (19 miles per second) or
0.001% light speed. At 0.001% light speed, that takes ten billion
years to cross the galaxy.
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