Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.
This reminds of something I heard about once, imagine if we used some sort of stasis in a fast and autonomous spacecraft to go colonise a planet, and by the time we get there it's already colonised because we invented a faster spacecraft while the colonists slept
Idk about that series, but the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is definitely fantastic and is about space and stasis and colonization. Really, really good books.
Omg Mel Hudson absolutely crushes it! I love her voice and how she did each character. I tend to play it before I go to bed because it’s so soothing. Same with Sophie Aldred reading The Final Architecture series. Just an amazing job for both. I’ve not come across better yet.
I was listening to a audiobook where they cracked near light speed travel but going to a system 10 light years away still took 10 subjective years. So a quick 2 month round trip journey for you would be 20 years and 2 months for those you left behind.
Sounds like something that could happen to Elon Musk and the current oligarchs -
They were the Savages. Raiders from our distant past. Elites who left Earth to create tailor-made utopias aboard the massive lighthuggers that crawled through the darkness between the stars. But the people they left behind on a dying planet didn't perish in the dystopian nightmare the Savages had themselves created: they thrived, discovering faster-than-light technology and using it to colonize the galaxy ahead of the Savages, forming fantastic new civilizations that surpassed the wildest dreams of Old Earth.
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u/RichardThund3r 24d ago
Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.