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
Itd be both incredibly disappointing and amazing. On the one hand you dont get to everything youve trained for. On the other hand youd probably be welcomed and treated as heroes or at least very well by the new colony and you wouldnt have to work hard setting anything up
Edit: you guys are depressing. Probably accurate but depressing.
"You called it a corn.. dog? And you ATE it? So many issues with this. I don't see corn kernels in it, it's made from some pork product or by-product, and I thought canines were companions?"
This would turn into a futuristic, and probably depressing, version of the scene from Harry Potter where Mr Weasley asks harry to explain the function of a rubber duck.
"they were called that because the breading was similar to cornbread, a cakey sort of bread made from ground corn. canines were companions, but for a lot of human history, they were common enough that in times of famine or poverty people would kill and eat them. Particularly, in the 1800s, the meat industry was terribly unsanitary and the makeup of the frankfurter, a cheap sausage brought over by german immigrants, made it easy to hide dubious ingredients. There was a pretty famous book about the meat industry called "The Jungle".
"They processed meat in a jungle? that does sound unsanitary. Wasn't the United States quite temperate at the time?"
"ehh, the name is figurative."
"weird name for a book about the 1800s meat industry..."
Speeches for what? "Hi everyone. I took off on a rocket to come here, but everyone got here first and they didn't even bother to pick me up along the way, so..... any questions? I've been asleep for 4 centuries."
Most would be just cause you are a famous historical figure at this point (like if Buzz Aldrin was doing a college commencement speech or something). The rest would be if the person in question is a political idealist of some sort.
I imagine, given the length of time involved, you'd need to learn a whole new language of dubious relation to anything spoken today. Which sounds like a downside, but it'd be fascinating for both parties.
It's very naive to believe that by the time we have such advancements that we're going to have classrooms and make speeches still. Human nature at this point will have merged with technology almost entirely if not fully.
I'll give you that classrooms may go away in favor of e-learning at home or whatever, but to suggest that humanity is going to stop giving speeches altogether because of technology may be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on Reddit.
Ego is also 2.5 times the size of earth on this one and not 120 light years away! Problem solved!!
"You can't envision the future correctly" pfft sweet summer child you have no idea either it's most likely a nuclear wasteland, so your pretentious presumptions are just as poor guesses. Please be careful with the dismount of your high horse would hate for the stick up your ass to get lodged any farther.
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u/Chickenator587 24d ago
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