(April 18, 2014 at 11:14 am)rasetsu Wrote:(April 17, 2014 at 9:38 pm)Rahul Wrote: Yeah, well, since our star will go boom in 5 billion years, taking 10 billion years to get there will probably take too long. Even if we froze ourselves so we wouldn't have to worry about evolutionary changes to the descendents of the original crew.
Wikipedia Wrote:A generation ship or generation starship is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than the speed of light.
Since such a ship might take centuries to thousands of years to reach even nearby stars, the original occupants of a generation ship would grow old and die, leaving their descendants to continue traveling.
![[Image: GSS1V1101-0.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.miryestore.com%2Fimages%2FD%2FGSS1V1101-0.jpg)
That actually sounds pretty cool, I wonder if the people on board would ever forget what their mission was though. I would also wonder if over generations some kind of religion forms on the ship that is shaped by their mission.
Anyways, solar sails anyone?
