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====Intergalactic travel==== {{Main|Intergalactic travel}} [[File:Interstellar vessel of Island One size, ion-driven, Don Davis, 1977.gif|thumb|upright=1.2|Proposed interstellar vessel based on [[Gerard K. O'Neill]]'s Island One version of [[Bernal sphere]] space habitat]] The distances between galaxies are on the order of a million times farther than those between the stars, and thus intergalactic colonization would involve voyages of millions of years via special self-sustaining methods.<ref name="burruss">{{cite journal | first1 = Robert Page | last1 = Burruss | first2= J. | last2= Colwell | title = Intergalactic Travel: The Long Voyage From Home | journal = The Futurist | date=September–October 1987 | volume= 21 | issue= 5 | pages = 29–33}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author= Fogg, Martyn | title= The Feasibility of Intergalactic Colonisation and its Relevance to SETI | journal= Journal of the British Interplanetary Society | volume= 41 | number= 11 | date= November 1988 | pages= 491–496 | url= https://www.academia.edu/4166742 | bibcode= 1988JBIS...41..491F }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author= Armstrong, Stuart | author2= Sandberg, Anders | url= http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/intergalactic-spreading.pdf | title=Eternity in six hours: intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox | journal= Acta Astronautica | year= 2013 | volume= 89 | pages= 1–13 | publisher= Future of Humanity Institute, Philosophy Department, Oxford University| doi= 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.04.002 | bibcode= 2013AcAau..89....1A }}</ref>
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