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We will, it just might not happen for thousands of years. Once we have the ability to freeze our bodies in stasis to wake at intervals and check progress, time

by prawn 11y ago

We will, it just might not happen for thousands of years. Once we have the ability to freeze our bodies in stasis to wake at intervals and check progress, time taken to travel huge distances may become meaningless. Set probe for x light years away, program the alarm for arrival. Of course, communication with anyone not travelling with you becomes a bit meaningless. Obviously a huge deal of progress to be made in terms of energy and replication, maintenance, etc. We're a bunch of stupid animals on average, but I wouldn't bet against the best of us making this sort of thing happen eventually. "Never" is a very definite thing to say!

jqm 11y ago
10,000 years is long time in a freezer. I throw even hamburger away after a year or so. The only way I see it happening is a multi-generational trip. Or sending some raw material with instructions and a platform to reconstruct DNA and grow out some embryos. Or we modify ourselves genetically to the point it isn't the current hominid species making the trip. Unless of course we find some sort of shortcut through space time. But it's all far fetched science fiction of course.
- prawn 11y ago
  Your freezer isn't that cold and doesn't freeze all that quickly. Raw material sent for construction is more likely, but I do like the idea of an individual being frozen enabling them to live almost as long as they wish and travel almost any distance.
macspoofing 11y ago
>Once we have the ability to freeze our bodies in stasis to wake at intervals and check progress A better approach is to send self-building/self-replicating droids, with human DNA or hard-drive saved consciousness. Let AI deal with the hazards of navigating interstellar space and building up a colony before 'birthing' humans. No freezing necessary (just a waste of resources)

3 ms·

We will, it just might not happen for thousands of years. Once we have the ability to freeze our bodies in stasis to wake at intervals and check progress, time

by prawn 11y ago

jqm 11y ago
10,000 years is long time in a freezer. I throw even hamburger away after a year or so. The only way I see it happening is a multi-generational trip. Or sending some raw material with instructions and a platform to reconstruct DNA and grow out some embryos. Or we modify ourselves genetically to the point it isn't the current hominid species making the trip. Unless of course we find some sort of shortcut through space time. But it's all far fetched science fiction of course.
- prawn 11y ago
  Your freezer isn't that cold and doesn't freeze all that quickly. Raw material sent for construction is more likely, but I do like the idea of an individual being frozen enabling them to live almost as long as they wish and travel almost any distance.
macspoofing 11y ago
>Once we have the ability to freeze our bodies in stasis to wake at intervals and check progress A better approach is to send self-building/self-replicating droids, with human DNA or hard-drive saved consciousness. Let AI deal with the hazards of navigating interstellar space and building up a colony before 'birthing' humans. No freezing necessary (just a waste of resources)