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Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet, is almost 25 trillion miles away. Even one of our fastest spaceships—the 31,600-​mile-​per-​hour New Horizons—would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there. Assuming we can’t figure out how to warp space-time (seems unlikely, but fingers crossed), we’re still looking at a couple-hundred-year trip in the best-case scenario, which leads to the real problem: No human crew could survive the entire ride. Science-fiction writers have long floated so-​called generation ships as a solution. Designers would outfit these interplanetary cruise vessels to support a ­community of adults and their children, and their children’s children, and their children’s children’s children…until humanity finally reaches a new celestial shore. Here’s our best guess for what it would take to sow the seeds of an extrasolar species.

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Re: We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2018, 01:35:34 pm »
On the bright side, by the time we get there we'll find a thriving colony founded by our great grandchildren who took off a few decades later with vastly superior technology.
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Re: We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2018, 09:17:32 pm »
On the bright side, by the time we get there we'll find a thriving colony founded by our great grandchildren who took off a few decades later with vastly superior technology.

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