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I'm thinking in a way, those awake may be at the mercy of those who sleep. Say the sleepers could hide - they could avoid a lot of turmoil, like these bamboo sp
by jacobush 9y ago
I'm thinking in a way, those awake may be at the mercy of those who sleep. Say the sleepers could hide - they could avoid a lot of turmoil, like these bamboo species that germinate for a hundred years, thus avoiding herbivores and vermin. Sleepers also can presumably also conserve resources better while those awake may build, and loose empires in the process.
- pmontra 9y agoThey would be betting they're able to hide themselves and their resources for all those years. It also requires faith in their own scientific discoveries (the universe will be like what they predict it to be) and much group discipline and trust. What if we could go to sleep for some 100k or 1M year to wake up in a planet that had fixed the excess CO2? Would everybody do it, no cheating? Not with current humankind. Great matter for scifi.