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Generation ship 58 km long
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) August 11, 2025
Engineers have unveiled the concept of the interstellar generation ship Chrysalis (chrysalis), which will be able to deliver up to 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri. The ultimate goal of the project is to reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima… pic.twitter.com/cnG59pzKzk
I was thinking I would go but they're talking about 70 years in Antarctica to train.
ReplyDeleteNobody who starts this will ever see space. Their kids and kid's kids will be going.
Assuming they want to go. Or they will be forced to go.
Who thought up that idea?
Pass.
Meant to say, that's why it"s a good idea to send pols.
DeleteThey, and their spawn (hey Chelsea!) will be off our backs.
Yes, pols should be the priority. Followed by activists.
DeletePity there's not more room to be sure to get all the scofflaws ....
Heh! Not a new concept, but perhaps a step towards reality.
ReplyDeleteWere I amongst the mission planners, I would urge them to read Robert Heinlein's book, "Universe", about a generational star ship, whose mission was suddenly changed by a mutiny.
It did not end well.
Veeshir introduced me to that book and others by Heinlein and Niven back in the day
Delete...try to get your legislators to sign up today!
ReplyDeleteWhat, you want it to be doomed to failure from the beginning?
And what if there's intelligent life on Proxima Centauri b? Wouldn't bringing politicians violate the Prime Directive, somehow?
Wouldn't bringing politicians violate the Prime Directive, somehow?
DeleteWe can hope they think pols taste good.
Ah, the stuff of many a science fiction novel. But like all our sci-fi, it probably will be a reality some day. I just don’t think they can pull it off in 25 years.
ReplyDeleteIIRC there was a sci-fi story about such a flight to Alpha Centauri and when the colonists arrived after 400+ years they found Earth people who got there using faster then light travel invented after the colony ship left.
ReplyDeleteTime For The Stars by Heinlein had a similar story.
DeleteThey traveled a long time, like 100 years as I recall, then an FTL ship came and picked them up.