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We've already solved that with reproduction. We need to figure out how to out-live our planet.
by naz 15y ago
We've already solved that with reproduction. We need to figure out how to out-live our planet.
- prawn 15y agoI think we know much of what we need to know (the basics: how to procreate, how to create a craft, etc; plus the steps to take) but the costs are just a little hard to justify for many given existing world problems and a predilection to just fighting everything.
- nooneelse 15y agoIf it is a generation ship or some other from of slow craft (and aren't they all at the scales we are discussing), then it needs to contain a biosphere if it is going to take humans in their current form. We aren't anywhere near good at making those at all. Unless we are thinking about some form of entirely synthetic food and oxygen production, in which case, we aren't any better at those really.
- prawn 15y agoTrue, true - but with funds and 5-10 years, surely we could ramp up a serious shot?
- thejbf 15y agoNo, not exactly. We still dont know if we are able to give healthy births with no or less gravitation.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoReproduction doesn't address the aging problem at all. To quote Woody Allen, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.". The same thing applies to reproduction: I don't want to achieve "immortality" of some fraction of my genetic code, I want to achieve immortality by not dying. :)