Can Interstellar Trade Work?

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[–]la_cues 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've thought of an idea where galaxies are trading but it takes hundreds or thousands of years for the resources to be shipped.

Once you get a steady stream going it wouldn't be so bad.

Governments would be arranging deals for goods that they wouldn't even be alive to recieve.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That would be a novel novel. What resource could possibly be cheaper to ship for 56 years rather than just making on the destination planet?