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You read hard sci fi and you don't have answers to these questions? Q: How will humanity survive the radiation? A: Build igloos or inhabit caves or just plain
by mburns 14y ago
You read hard sci fi and you don't have answers to these questions?
Q: How will humanity survive the radiation?
A: Build igloos or inhabit caves or just plain dig into the ground. Problem solved.
Q: How will humans remain mentally healthy?
A: The Internet and social interaction with other colonists. Also, there is a lot of work to be done growing plants, managing systems, exploring robots, documenting and cataloging all that we find.
People, today, already live in extreme isolation for extended periods of time by choice.
Those aren't even the hard problems to solve.
- specialist 14y agoI'm projecting. As an extrovert, I'd go nuts. So clearly I'm not making the trip. I'm more worried about the time in transit. For sanity, my assumption is that humans will need the ability to easily increase / decrease metabolism. So that 6 month, year, century trip would seem like a few days. For radiation, I think space faring humans will need to be radiation hardened somehow.