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> If we had the political will It takes more than that. We need political maturity and stability. There is no way we can send people today on a 200 years journ
by gutnor 7y ago
> If we had the political will
It takes more than that. We need political maturity and stability. There is no way we can send people today on a 200 years journey and be sure they will both make it and be able to create a somewhat stable society on the other side.
Also, that would be a earth level effort, another thing that is seriously irrealistic right now. The very best we can achieve right now is the ISS and that's pathetic even compared to current tech.
The biggest push in recent years has been around privatisation of space exploration. It is going to take decades, probably centuries before a commercial model of space settles down and non-profit utopist project like that would be conceivable.
- brianbreslin 7y agoWould a vessel from 50 years from now beat the original crew there? If we assume we are advancing speed-wise by X% each year, the poor folks sent and likely put into cryo-stasis would get lapped by people who left 10 years or 25 years after them.
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- kjs3 7y agoThere are a number of SF stories where this is the plot.
- booleandilemma 7y agoImagine waking up out of your cryo-stasis and seeing humans already living on the planet you were sent to colonize? That would be weird, to say the least.
- Moxdi 7y agoI bet there's a science fiction novel about that
- brianbreslin 7y agoIf there isn't someone should write it.
- aaronax 7y agoI have read one. Many years ago, don't remember much about it. But I'm pretty sure it also discussed how all of the "future folk" were disgusted with the smell of the ones that had been traveling in cryo for 200 years. Too much perfume/deodorant...they didn't like the flower smells anymore as I believe they had engineered themselves to not perspire any more.