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The usual definition of starship is a ship that travels between the stars. Earth is stuck orbiting one star so I wouldn’t classify it as a starship. Maybe the l
by chongli 4y ago
The usual definition of starship is a ship that travels between the stars. Earth is stuck orbiting one star so I wouldn’t classify it as a starship. Maybe the label would better suit a rogue planet?
- Qem 4y agoThe sun moves relative to the neighboring stars. That means we have periodic close encounters (d < 1ly) with other stars, and effectively the Earth starship argument holds. The lazy way to travel the stars is to figure how to avoid killing ourselves for tens of thousands of years, while the stars come to us. See the list of future close encounters at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brown_dwarfs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_br...