> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?
bruh noah did it with 2
Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
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#12Link to Canva presentation for the winning entry https://www.canva.com/design/DAGmr3ubC8E/LHHAeeAIGGQe_TkZVs-...
Reading through this in detail just cements that we are never leaving this solar system unless we discover some new physics to get around our speed limitations.
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#13I doubt the human psyche is capable of such a voyage while being awake the whole time. Even with all the toys and biomes, life will get boring and pointless fast, producing unfulfilled needs, disorder, conflict and revolt. People can't be ants in a colony working for such a narrowly defined goal through a lifetime, especially not multi-generationally. Our existence is based on constant questioning and revolutions. A 400 year travel to an unknown, possibly empty, lifeless target, however historic, is not something that can keep a society running long term.
Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
#14Link to Canva presentation for the winning entry https://www.canva.com/design/DAGmr3ubC8E/LHHAeeAIGGQe_TkZVs-...
Reading through this in detail just cements that we are never leaving this solar system unless we discover some new physics to get around our speed limitations.
c appears to be the speed limit of the propagation of information in the universe - never say never, but so far it appears quite unlikely any new physics will overturn this.
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#15> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?
The human population might have been reduced to as few as 1000 individuals at one point: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
Follow up work has shown that result is a statistical artifact/does not replicate [1,2,3].
[1]https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article-abstract/229/1/iya...
[2]https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/2/msaf041/8005733
[3]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.25.586640v1
Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
#16> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?
most importantly, will we carry 1000 of the best minds of our generation, 1000 hairdressers/insurance salesmen/management consultants or 1000 billionaires and their direct families?
Downvoters apparently still sore about the Golgafrinchan B Ark incident.
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#17> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?
That's a problem that's easy to fix with a fridge and a bunch of embryos. They take practically no space.
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#18I love that most of those designs give bigger houses to people in a spaceship than modern houses in the UK on planet earth.
Love the designs, doubt democracy would get them through more than 250 days, let alone 250 years.
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#19I doubt the human psyche is capable of such a voyage while being awake the whole time. Even with all the toys and biomes, life will get boring and pointless fast, producing unfulfilled needs, disorder, conflict and revolt. People can't be ants in a colony working for such a narrowly defined goal through a lifetime, especially not multi-generationally. Our existence is based on constant questioning and revolutions. A…
I suspect it’ll be easier to adapt the human species to be compatible with long-duration travel than to design spaceships to accommodate humans as-is.
Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
#20I doubt the human psyche is capable of such a voyage while being awake the whole time. Even with all the toys and biomes, life will get boring and pointless fast, producing unfulfilled needs, disorder, conflict and revolt. People can't be ants in a colony working for such a narrowly defined goal through a lifetime, especially not multi-generationally. Our existence is based on constant questioning and revolutions. A…
Menonites in space. Autistic astronauts only.