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What’s the Minimum Number of People you Should Send in a Generational Ship to Proxima Centauri?
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| 06/14/2018
| Matt Williams
Posted on 06/14/2018 5:32:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: RightGeek
And Muslims. The Sun is closer.
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:21:22 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(When all liberals have is a hammer, every problem is a nail in YOUR coffin.)
To: BenLurkin
At least enough to operate the Warp Drive.
It’s all silly: if you build a ship that works... you have a world in itself. It doesn’t need to go anywhere.
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:21:38 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: BenLurkin
You would want to send Zero people there.
Proxima Centaurs is a flare star. It frequently erupts with massive amounts of radiation, so, it would NOT be a good place for humans at all.
Tau Ceti or 61 Cygni might be better.
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:22:05 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: BenLurkin
Optimum would be to take a metallic asteroid, or other mass, and manipulate it- like a glassblower- into a cylinder.
Boy I pity the first engineers in charge of that project!
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:31:24 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Kartographer
(LOL)23
We sure have a weird sense of humor!
85
posted on
06/14/2018 7:45:23 PM PDT
by
publius911
( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
To: BenLurkin
Will they have a smoking section?
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:52:20 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/14/2018 7:53:03 PM PDT
by
john316
(JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
To: blueunicorn6
I think the answer is 42.
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:04:03 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(If we make it, we'll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying)
To: IronJack
Bump! Had the same thought :)
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:11:15 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(The problem: parents doing their careers instead of raising their kids. h/t: Wyrd bið ful aræd)
To: SoCal Pubbie
... there Momentum Limited spacecraft... What's a 'there Momentum Limited spacecraft?'
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:17:21 PM PDT
by
publius911
( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
To: BenLurkin
1) I believe 600 human beings, based on families of less than 5, is the genetic diversity to prevent inbreeding. 2) ALL THE MUSLIMS. We take them in aboard dropships that explode one hour after landing. This allows them to completely abandon tech, which they clearly hate, and if we come back in 100 years, everybody will be dead...because they will slaughter each other over vital arguments such as what Mohammed ate for breakfast.
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:17:39 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
To: fruser1
Will they have a smoking section?"
I am hoping there is and it looks something like this:
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:18:55 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: xkaydet65
Heinlein and others have shown that the poor bastards in a colony ship will arrive to find the planet already inhabited and thriving from the generations of colonists who hopped the FTL ship that left earth after the tech was invented a century later.
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:19:09 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Read Larry Niven’s Known Space collection of books. The probes sent from Earth were badly programmed...and yes, the generation ships had it rough when they got there.
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:20:34 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
To: BenLurkin
Don't forget: keep the telephone sanitizers here!
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:25:17 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: 50sDad
Those were good books; though Ringworld was the better out of that series of four.
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posted on
06/14/2018 8:38:18 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: 50sDad
Don’t really need FTL. Build a ship that travels .5 SoL and they wouls reach Proxima in 8 or nine years . What gappens after tgat depends on what they find. If they find no hospitable planets maybe on their return they search out for the first ship and lead them home. Turtledove created a similar scenario in tge last book of the Worl War Series.
To: BenLurkin
I suspect the genetic inbreeding he worried about with a crew of 32 would also affect a crew of 98 over that long a trip. Whoever got off the ship at the end of the journey would probably be a liberal.
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posted on
06/14/2018 9:26:53 PM PDT
by
Hootowl
To: publius911
A typo. There should have been their.
To: BenLurkin
Wow, that is one nerdy headline! 😉
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posted on
06/14/2018 11:55:52 PM PDT
by
TXBlair
(We will not forget Benghazi.)
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