A faster light speed wouldn't make a difference, since she made the universe 96 billion light years wide.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick but out by us it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point, we go around every two hundred million years and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed thereis. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth.

And to add the cherry on top, should you ever reach his arbitrary speed limit, it distorts time itself. Even if you flew through space at c for a little weekend getaway, you'd return to a now foreign world only to find time had skipped forward +2,000 years, your entire family and social circles long dead from old age with societal and technical advancements beyond what you could have ever thought possible, completely isolating you. You're now doomed to live in an unfamiliar world where not a single human speaks your language nor can they relate to you in any meaning way.

AKA, gods speeding ticket.

We don't know how big is the universe beyond the observable universe.

99% of the universe is nothing. Wouldn't that really be the dick move?

Light speed is a "you must be this clever to participate" barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that's all. Even if it's not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.

And sending a space ship at a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We've got some work to do climbing up the Kardashev scale before we're anywhere close to that kind of travel.

Hear me out. It doesn't even matter that it's 96 billion light-years away if you're traveling at light speed. Because if you can travel at light speed, time would be frozen for you relative to earth time.

So if you're in a spaceship traveling at light speed to your destination, it would feel like you gotten there in an instant.

There is no evidence that the Universe is bounded at all. For all we know, it is infinite in spacial dimension.

Wait, now that I think about it, the observable universe have precisely that length because the speed of light, doesn't it?

Do you believe that the wide expanses of our planet Earth were crafted for the common ant to explore?

When the game is open world but no fast travel or mounts.

Also the Universe: continues expanding

Its probably for the best.

If humans are able to get to another planet with life on it we would probably do horrific unspeakable things to the aliens.

Don't forget the part where it's constantly expanding. So it's 96B ly so far.

There is idea in the three body problem novels:

The mere though of that is dreadful to me.