Most likely smaller probes powered by lasers. I don’t actually know whether it’s feasible or not, just wanted to gesture at the ideas that conditional on galaxies actually being auctioned:
if distant MW sized galaxies are nominally sold for less than $250 each, this would mean that either ~nobody wants them or the market basically expects the trade to be reversed
if a tiny minority buys the galaxies for cheap, whoever is in power would eventually realize the true worth of the galaxies and may try to reverse the trades
Won’t those probes be heading off toward their galaxies at a noticeable fraction of the speed of light?
I guess you mean shoot them down with high intensity lasers?
Most likely smaller probes powered by lasers. I don’t actually know whether it’s feasible or not, just wanted to gesture at the ideas that conditional on galaxies actually being auctioned:
if distant MW sized galaxies are nominally sold for less than $250 each, this would mean that either ~nobody wants them or the market basically expects the trade to be reversed
if a tiny minority buys the galaxies for cheap, whoever is in power would eventually realize the true worth of the galaxies and may try to reverse the trades