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I’m unsure the human rights aspect is going to be the limiting factor. Humans are constantly doing inhuman things. We have a history of forcibly migrating peop
by Nbox9 5y ago
I’m unsure the human rights aspect is going to be the limiting factor. Humans are constantly doing inhuman things. We have a history of forcibly migrating people, it’s not uncommon in our history at all.
I think it’s just as likely that we never spend the engineering effort on a multi-generation colonization ship. Compared to inner-stellar travel inter-stellar travel requires much much more space, robust systems, and reliability. For example, the distance between Earth and the nearest star is over 100,000,000 times the distance between Earth and Jupiter. It’s questionable we’ll ever put the effort into being inner-stellar, but the difference between inner-stellar and inter-stellar is greater than the difference between a paddle board and an aircraft carrier.
- ido 5y agoAssume we survive climate change as a technologically advanced society & that no other natural disaster or war wipe us out, so you really think you can predict what sort of technology will or will not be available to humans 1,000 years from now? How about 1,000,000? If in those time spans we figure out a way to sustain 1g acceleration throughout the trip (currently not achievable but less sci-fi than FTL) we can reach nearby stars within the lifetime of the astronauts: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/12/30/how-far-could-a-spaceship-go-if-we-never-ran-out-of-thrust/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/12/30/how-...
- Nbox9 5y agoIn your favor “How can we go faster” has been a question people have been asking for thousands of years, and we’ve made pretty steady progress on it.