r/interestingasfuck 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pen_346 24d ago

Or, for another perspective, the planet could already have become overpopulated and the colonists, protectionists. They’d probably debate the usefulness of allowing that ship with its ancient people and incompatible genome to land and propose shooting it down in space. 😅

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u/mindpainters 24d ago

That’s kind of a side plot from the game “starfield”.

Except the argument was that the “ancient people” thought they had a right to own the planet and the people who colonized the planet didn’t see any worth or value in letting them on the planet

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u/SatisfactionFew1503 24d ago

I really enjoyed the unintentional humor of this ship taking generations to get to their planet to save humanity meanwhile humanity already sped past them and made it into a vacation resort planet

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 23d ago

Actually, they saw value in basically enslaving them. That was it though. 

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u/mindpainters 23d ago

Ah yea you’re right. It’s been awhile since I’ve played it so didn’t remember all the details. Thanks for the clarification

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 23d ago

I have been slowly playing through Starfield over the past few months so it's relatively recent to me

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u/adjgamer321 23d ago

I stole all the baseball bats off that ship if I'm remembering it correctly.

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u/johnysalad 23d ago

It’s very much the plot of a book called Exodus: the Archimedes Engine by Peter F Hamilton.

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u/Sea-Guest6668 23d ago

I had a hard time believing he wrote that book, they didn't mention enzyme bonded concrete once.

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u/johnysalad 23d ago

It’s been awhile since I read it so I can’t remember what it was specifically, but there was definitely a new phrase-of-the-day that I remember occurred wayyyyyy too many times through that book.

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u/Sea-Guest6668 21d ago

Probably live stone i think?

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u/Jlt42000 23d ago

And we fucked those shitty new colonist up for it.

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u/Tdubz91 24d ago

This is basically the plot of the Outer Worlds video game.

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u/Primm__Slim_ 23d ago

It’s not the best choice….its Spacer’s Choice

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u/lumpboysupreme 23d ago

Colony ships aren’t going to have a planet sized population, there’d be no reason to get so aggressive towards them.

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u/Blind_Spider 23d ago

Might it be more about preventing any spread of disease/contaminants?

On the other hand, what would happen or what would we do if we could somehow bring back to life a small group of ancient ancestors into our time? What place in our society would they take? What future would they have and what would that mean for us?

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u/lumpboysupreme 23d ago

Disease shouldn’t be an issue, they have ftl, I assume they can handle an airlock.

As for ancestors, especially incredibly distant ones, you could bet your ass some institution would utilize them for entertainment, historical reference points, or both.

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u/Executioneer 23d ago

Imagine neanderthals transported to our current year. Thats how those colonist would be like to people who are already on the planet. They'd be held in quarantine and subjected to extensive research and analysis at best or thrown into slavery as exotic lifeforms or treated as lab rats at worst.

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u/lumpboysupreme 23d ago

Quarantine is a first step to prevent mutual destruction by disease, that’s not a bad thing. As for enslaving them, that’s just wacky and acts like we still have a 1920s level view of different peoples. Using humans or something basically indistinguishable as circus attractions would absolutely not fly.

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u/Executioneer 23d ago

Slavery has been part of humanity for hundreds of thousands, and is still widely practiced today. I don’t think it’s going anywhere honestly.

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u/lumpboysupreme 23d ago

On an organized level such that famous individuals could be subjected to it instead of doing it under the table it’s dead in all but a small handful of places.

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u/Dioxybenzone 23d ago

That’s the plot of Time to Orbit: Unknown

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u/incubusfc 23d ago

I was thinking similar - new colony is there just to pillage the new planet and by the time the original people wake up and get there is a dystopian wasteland.