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It's mostly empty, isn't it? By "literally nothing there," I mean there's literally nothing for us. Three stars and a few Earth-sized planets in the habitable
by agentultra 1y ago
It's mostly empty, isn't it?
By "literally nothing there," I mean there's literally nothing for us. Three stars and a few Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone that are, more than likely, uninhabitable by humans. There's nothing there worth going all that way for.
I like sci-fi as much as the next person but the reality of the situation, it seems to me, is that the universe is mostly empty, vast, and inhospitable to human life.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> It's mostly empty, isn't it? So is the Pacific Ocean for practical definitions of emptiness. You don't got to the empty places.
- rbanffy 1y agoThe difference between a multi-generational interstellar ship and a self-sustaining space colony is the engine. They wouldn’t need inhabitable planets - they would need raw materials to build more ships and habitats. I’m not sure that after spending a lifetime in an ample space colony its inhabitants would feel nostalgic of the time we spent sitting on round rocks cooking around a star.