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A bridge, you say? Then we can cross to other galaxies! Our overpopulation problems are solved!
On a more serious note, I wonder how much this would increase our ability to cross the gulfs. Assuming we could eventually build machines that can endure for hundreds of thousands of years, would the presence of a gas bridge would make ramscoops a more viable intergalactic option?
...for those distances we're talking hundreds of millions of years at relativistic velocities, even billions...
Wouldn't the ship itself perceive a lot less of that time compared to an external point of reference?
...that's correct: i assumed 0.01c and didn't adjust for time dilation, which can drastically affect the calculations depending upon how far we push relativistic super-science, although the required energies are commensurately absurd...