• Nora@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You dont have to go faster than light to get to another star. It’s not easy but you couldn’t possibly imagine a billion years of technological development.

    • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      What about those generational ships with closed ecosystems where people live and inbreed for hundreds of years until they reach another system?

      • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        You mean to say millions of years. The tech needed to accelerate enough to make the trip in hundreds of years is also far outside the realm of physics as we know it

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        1 year ago

        The problem isn’t travel time, it’s speed. Space itself is continuing to expand, at a faster and faster rate. It’s expanding so fast that we’ll actually never reach far out with conventional means. We’d just endlessly drift through the darkness because we wouldn’t be able to go fast enough to reach anything. A generation ship would simply not be able to get anywhere, ever.

        I mean, maybe we can make it into another very close system, but what are the chances that there’s anything even close to being habitable?