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For the foreseeable future that's is going to look like a permanently sustainable space colony that just happens to be travelling towards another system. Given
by Already__Taken 11y ago
For the foreseeable future that's is going to look like a permanently sustainable space colony that just happens to be travelling towards another system. Given the timescales involved.
- hga 11y agoThe Generation Ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship
- ansible 11y agoThe issue is that it takes a ridiculous amount of energy to transport even 1kg of matter from one solar system to another in a reasonable amount of time. We're more likely to upload our minds and run them on a small and energy efficient computing substrate. After seeding a new solar system with appropriate infrastructure, we can then just transmit ourselves from place to place.