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There’s so much empty space, a random shotgun blast would be unlikely to hit anything. Here’s a video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdE-Q3yDYQ&pp=yg

by awb 3y ago

There’s so much empty space, a random shotgun blast would be unlikely to hit anything. Here’s a video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdE-Q3yDYQ&pp=ygUvdHJhdmVsIGFjcm9zcyB0aGUgZ2FsYXh5IHdvdWxkIHlvdSBoaXQgYW55dGhpbmc%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdE-Q3yDYQ&pp=ygUvdHJhdmVsIGF... For example there is ~4 light years of empty space between us and our closest star. And if you come upon a solar system but don’t hit a planet you’d probably get ejected into empty space. And even if you did hit a planet, you could end up on water, land, lava, etc., so I guess you’d have to account for all possibilities, plus keeping your biological cargo alive during the extremely long journey. So it would have to be a heavily calculated trajectory and heavily planned cargo to find much success.

upwardbound 3y ago
Assuming the capsules followed planned trajectories, they could have used technology such as that which is being developed in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, described here: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3 https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3
- awb 3y ago
  The trajectory is more of the issue rather than the speed. You’d probably need onboard AI navigation to course correct and make landing spot decisions.
  - spartanatreyu 3y ago
    Nah, just aim your capsules along the galaxy with a speed low enough to not leave the galaxy. The capsules will go around the galaxy, travelling through or oscillating above and below the galactic plane just like other stars. Bonus 1: Make your capsules charged so they're guided by galactic magnetic field lines into star-forming nebula where a high density of stars are created letting them mix into protoplanetary disks. Bonus 2: Just keep spewing out more capsules to increase mixing rates.
  - ojosilva 3y ago
    And don't forget that there's a "when". Planets ready to be seeded with life are rare at a given point in the universe's timeline. So the AI also needs to make course timing decisions in the magnitudes of 1B years... It's so much easier to build and train AI then migrate our "humanity" into machines and just go from there to the Tannhäuser Gate and beyond. When I was a kid, my dad, a very spiritual guy, after tucking me in, revealed to me: "Son, humans can already travel faster than light". My young and inquisitive scientific self said "What?? How?!?!" And he goes: "Just close your eyes and imagine yourself on Mars. It's instantaneous."
    - russfink 3y ago
      If you have AI, it can make the decision to "deploy" or loiter. If the technology is sufficiently advanced, it can wait a while. A long while. Plus - why only one source of these capsules? Does only one mold cell in a colony generate a spore? Drake suggests that perhaps many will have done this same thing.
mongol 3y ago
That is really cool software he is using
ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Why is there so much space. I never got that. There is just so much space. Seems unoptimized.

by awb 3y ago

upwardbound 3y ago

Assuming the capsules followed planned trajectories, they could have used technology such as that which is being developed in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, described here: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3 https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3

awb 3y ago
The trajectory is more of the issue rather than the speed. You’d probably need onboard AI navigation to course correct and make landing spot decisions.
- spartanatreyu 3y ago
  Nah, just aim your capsules along the galaxy with a speed low enough to not leave the galaxy. The capsules will go around the galaxy, travelling through or oscillating above and below the galactic plane just like other stars. Bonus 1: Make your capsules charged so they're guided by galactic magnetic field lines into star-forming nebula where a high density of stars are created letting them mix into protoplanetary disks. Bonus 2: Just keep spewing out more capsules to increase mixing rates.
- ojosilva 3y ago
  And don't forget that there's a "when". Planets ready to be seeded with life are rare at a given point in the universe's timeline. So the AI also needs to make course timing decisions in the magnitudes of 1B years... It's so much easier to build and train AI then migrate our "humanity" into machines and just go from there to the Tannhäuser Gate and beyond. When I was a kid, my dad, a very spiritual guy, after tucking me in, revealed to me: "Son, humans can already travel faster than light". My young and inquisitive scientific self said "What?? How?!?!" And he goes: "Just close your eyes and imagine yourself on Mars. It's instantaneous."
  - russfink 3y ago
    If you have AI, it can make the decision to "deploy" or loiter. If the technology is sufficiently advanced, it can wait a while. A long while. Plus - why only one source of these capsules? Does only one mold cell in a colony generate a spore? Drake suggests that perhaps many will have done this same thing.

mongol 3y ago

That is really cool software he is using

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

Why is there so much space. I never got that. There is just so much space. Seems unoptimized.