RE: Earth's Big Cousin
July 23, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2015 at 7:55 pm by Rahul.)
(July 23, 2015 at 7:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What a terrific plan. With current technology, it would take just short of 50 million years to reach this particular planet. But I want to be fair, so let's assume there's a tremendous technological breakthrough, and we can shave 90% of that travel time. I can't even begin to imagine a technology that would keep zygotes viable for 2 million years (if I could, I could also imagine a technology that would get us 1400 light years by next Wednesday).
Your notion of building an artificial world has a touch more merit, but - aside from the mind-boggling cost - you'd still have most of the problems associated with a terrestrial planet.
I'm afraid that, after all, imagination is not the limit.
Boru
Pbhtt. People that lived 150 years ago wouldn't even begin to imagine half the things we take for granted today. In a thousand years, if humanity is still around and civilization hasn't collapsed, my premise would not only be technically feasible but probably antiquated and superseded by much better options.
Besides the faster things move the slower time goes. For those that stay behind it may be millions of years. For those traveling close to the speed of light it would be of a much shorter time duration.
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