And in that example, I should have made clear I was referring to a human made nuclear impulse multi-generation craft with a human crew.
There might be aliens that feel 20 million years is just a noodge boring, LOL.
As for humans on a flight like that, even the rate of hull leakage could be a dire problem. How do you keep something big pressurized for 20 million years with no possibility of a refill during that time? And a power source that works that long? And the propulsion units will be past their sell by date long before they are needed for the decal at Andromeda.
A 20 million year flight also would invite Darwin to mess with the crew. What is 'manning' the vessel after 20 million years would no longer be human unless extremely advanced genetic engineering/repair/maintenance techniques were developed.
And even let's say the resources of 10 or 100 colonies were employed to build a really big ship to send to Andromeda, the odds of success would still be zero.
And even aliens with extremely long life spans will still be faced with the same engineering challenges for going from here to there, or vice versa. The power source seems really tough to engineer.
There might be aliens that feel 20 million years is just a noodge boring, LOL.
As for humans on a flight like that, even the rate of hull leakage could be a dire problem. How do you keep something big pressurized for 20 million years with no possibility of a refill during that time? And a power source that works that long? And the propulsion units will be past their sell by date long before they are needed for the decal at Andromeda.
A 20 million year flight also would invite Darwin to mess with the crew. What is 'manning' the vessel after 20 million years would no longer be human unless extremely advanced genetic engineering/repair/maintenance techniques were developed.
And even let's say the resources of 10 or 100 colonies were employed to build a really big ship to send to Andromeda, the odds of success would still be zero.
And even aliens with extremely long life spans will still be faced with the same engineering challenges for going from here to there, or vice versa. The power source seems really tough to engineer.
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