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That would be so interesting - could be many a sci-fi stories created on that premise. Some mechanical robot/starship storing frozen embryos for 100 years to b

That would be so interesting - could be many a sci-fi stories created on that premise. Some mechanical robot/starship storing frozen embryos for 100 years to be released on a far-away exoplanet, the starship taking care of them while they grow up and learn how to live on this new world - the beginnings of a new civilization - a technological adam and eve of sorts.

1ko 4y ago
Raised by wolves
- z3c0 4y ago
  And Interstellar
  - lhuser123 4y ago
    I am Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother
  - killyourcar 4y ago
    And 2001 Nights.
- Larrikin 4y ago
  But hopefully the story would actually be interesting
prox 4y ago
We can’t do lightspeed with the best tech available, so it’s more like 300-400 years probably.
- ryandrake 4y ago
  Don't have to go light speed, thanks to relativity. If we could achieve and sustain even 1G acceleration, live humans could make the 100LY trip in approx. 9 years (spaceship time). You could leave, visit the planet, and come back only 18 years older and tell the next-next-next-next-next generation all about it. EDIT: To be fair, 1G over 100LY will result in a maximum speed around 0.9998c so I guess you would have to approximately approach light speed for this trip.
  - hoosieree 4y ago
    Mo' acceleration, mo' trolley problems. Go on vacation; come back; everyone's dead.
    - bergenty 4y ago
      Alright, alright, alright.
  - euroderf 4y ago
    Better stock up on antimatter.
  - Melatonic 4y ago
    Is this really how time dilation works?
    - 7thaccount 4y ago
      Speed through space + Time adds up to the speed of light or something like that (not a physicist). So as you get closer and closer to the speed of light, your motion through time (from your point of view) slows tremendously. So a few years to you, could be centuries to outside observers. Source: some Kip Thorne lectures I saw like 15 years ago.
      - prox 4y ago
        It’s interesting that space and time are so intrinsically linked. So space “needs” time and vice-versa. I would love to be able to take an peak behind the curtain how it all works (as I think the relativity theory is rather descriptive, not the true mechanism) I mean (so Energy is massaccel^2) so does that make space and time equal to energy. i need a coffee for this one*
        7thaccount 4y ago
        Yeah, I just try to learn a bit of the high level "understanding" of how the experts say things like time dilation work, but that's about it. I don't try to extrapolate what little I know as it would likely all be nonsense without a full understanding of the math of all of this stuff: relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology...etc. Not that it isn't good to think about this stuff.
elliekelly 4y ago
You might enjoy the short story collection Children of the New World[1] by Alexander Weinstein. One of the stories, Saying Goodbye to Yang, was recently made into a movie called After Yang[2] staring Colin Farrell. The movie has a super-catchy opening credit sequence.[3] [1]https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/31cd88d8-d8d3-4414-b38c-d4d76dc4f7f9 https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/31cd88d8-d8d3-4414-b38c-... [2]https://boxd.it/lx5a https://boxd.it/lx5a [3]https://twitter.com/A24/status/1499114323314151425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1499114323314151425%7Ctwgr%5E964b404722b3d92d8c335ce0160f6079b9122cc6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecider.com%2F2022%2F03%2F07%2Fafter-yang-opening-credits-dance-scene%2F https://twitter.com/A24/status/1499114323314151425?ref_src=t...
blywi 4y ago
The best exploration of this theme that I have read, was an East German SF novel from the former GDR. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it has never been translated into English. Here is a very short synopsis on the authors website in English: https://steinmuller.de/en/sf-literatur/science-fiction-buecher/andymon https://steinmuller.de/en/sf-literatur/science-fiction-buech...
OkayPhysicist 4y ago
I feel like the reverse situation kinda writes itself as a sci-fi horror short story: You've got people living their every day lives, when a probe from space lands and starts producing aliens. At first it's treated as a strange curiosity, but with time the aliens begin to make inroads conquering the planet. Ending twist: the aliens are humans, and the "people" were aliens!
- jra_samba 4y ago
  "And All The Stars, A Stage", by James Blish.
- throw-ru-938 4y ago
  Tangentially related: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3936 https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3936.
boxed 4y ago
http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html is my favorite take on this
bergenty 4y ago
We’ll never get governments to approve and fund this. Elon/Bill if you’re reading this you have to do this going rogue. Make it happen. Send human life out to a hundred different planets!
kyriakos 4y ago
Or possibly long hibernation could allow adults to travel too.

1ko 4y ago

Raised by wolves

z3c0 4y ago
And Interstellar
- lhuser123 4y ago
  I am Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother
- killyourcar 4y ago
  And 2001 Nights.
Larrikin 4y ago
But hopefully the story would actually be interesting

prox 4y ago

We can’t do lightspeed with the best tech available, so it’s more like 300-400 years probably.

ryandrake 4y ago
Don't have to go light speed, thanks to relativity. If we could achieve and sustain even 1G acceleration, live humans could make the 100LY trip in approx. 9 years (spaceship time). You could leave, visit the planet, and come back only 18 years older and tell the next-next-next-next-next generation all about it. EDIT: To be fair, 1G over 100LY will result in a maximum speed around 0.9998c so I guess you would have to approximately approach light speed for this trip.
- hoosieree 4y ago
  Mo' acceleration, mo' trolley problems. Go on vacation; come back; everyone's dead.
  - bergenty 4y ago
    Alright, alright, alright.
- euroderf 4y ago
  Better stock up on antimatter.
- Melatonic 4y ago
  Is this really how time dilation works?
  - 7thaccount 4y ago
    Speed through space + Time adds up to the speed of light or something like that (not a physicist). So as you get closer and closer to the speed of light, your motion through time (from your point of view) slows tremendously. So a few years to you, could be centuries to outside observers. Source: some Kip Thorne lectures I saw like 15 years ago.
    - prox 4y ago
      It’s interesting that space and time are so intrinsically linked. So space “needs” time and vice-versa. I would love to be able to take an peak behind the curtain how it all works (as I think the relativity theory is rather descriptive, not the true mechanism) I mean (so Energy is massaccel^2) so does that make space and time equal to energy. i need a coffee for this one*
      - 7thaccount 4y ago
        Yeah, I just try to learn a bit of the high level "understanding" of how the experts say things like time dilation work, but that's about it. I don't try to extrapolate what little I know as it would likely all be nonsense without a full understanding of the math of all of this stuff: relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology...etc. Not that it isn't good to think about this stuff.

elliekelly 4y ago

You might enjoy the short story collection Children of the New World[1] by Alexander Weinstein. One of the stories, Saying Goodbye to Yang, was recently made into a movie called After Yang[2] staring Colin Farrell. The movie has a super-catchy opening credit sequence.[3] [1]https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/31cd88d8-d8d3-4414-b38c-d4d76dc4f7f9 https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/31cd88d8-d8d3-4414-b38c-... [2]https://boxd.it/lx5a https://boxd.it/lx5a [3]https://twitter.com/A24/status/1499114323314151425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1499114323314151425%7Ctwgr%5E964b404722b3d92d8c335ce0160f6079b9122cc6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecider.com%2F2022%2F03%2F07%2Fafter-yang-opening-credits-dance-scene%2F https://twitter.com/A24/status/1499114323314151425?ref_src=t...

blywi 4y ago

The best exploration of this theme that I have read, was an East German SF novel from the former GDR. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it has never been translated into English. Here is a very short synopsis on the authors website in English: https://steinmuller.de/en/sf-literatur/science-fiction-buecher/andymon https://steinmuller.de/en/sf-literatur/science-fiction-buech...

OkayPhysicist 4y ago

I feel like the reverse situation kinda writes itself as a sci-fi horror short story: You've got people living their every day lives, when a probe from space lands and starts producing aliens. At first it's treated as a strange curiosity, but with time the aliens begin to make inroads conquering the planet. Ending twist: the aliens are humans, and the "people" were aliens!

jra_samba 4y ago
"And All The Stars, A Stage", by James Blish.
throw-ru-938 4y ago
Tangentially related: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3936 https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3936.

boxed 4y ago

http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html is my favorite take on this

bergenty 4y ago

We’ll never get governments to approve and fund this. Elon/Bill if you’re reading this you have to do this going rogue. Make it happen. Send human life out to a hundred different planets!

kyriakos 4y ago

Or possibly long hibernation could allow adults to travel too.