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Maybe ships will need laser power . It remains to be seen if near-C travel is at all feasible, due to radiation/erosion from impacting interstellar material. If

Maybe ships will need laser power . It remains to be seen if near-C travel is at all feasible, due to radiation/erosion from impacting interstellar material. If not, a ship can easily carry its own fuel, it will just be a generation/hibernation ship. Or, perhaps our extropian descendants won't care about travel time. ;-) OR, maybe the black hole could power a hyperspace portal or something equally exotic... Regardless, having a compact object nearby to play with would be fun!

dogma1138 6y ago
One thing will have to change if we ever can travel at relativistic speeds or have function cryogenics (or anything similar) will be markets and investments, just think of putting even a relatively small amount into a yielding investment even an index fund and going to “sleep” for 200 years not only would you get immediately to benefit from 200 years of advancement but you’ll also get to benefit form 200 years of what effectively is compound interest. I really wonder what will the societal implications of such a path being possible are going to be. There are plenty of people that will be willing to push a pause button right now to be able to wake up in a world where you could buy a ticket to mars, add to that the quite likely possibility of becoming a millionaire if not a billionaire if you put enough money into any inflation beating investment and you get quite the incentives package. Sure you might never wake up because the world is going to end in a nuclear holocaust or your icebox will experience a kernel panic 17 years into your suspended animation but overall this quite likely be a much lower possibility than dying prematurely today.
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