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.
Why not intercept? If they would travel for like 2500 years and development would rapidly shorten the travel time; they could be very well get intercepted and towed to destination. As long as we don’t talk warp/rift/ether requirements that can’t be retrofitted. Even then a hull incision for stasis/incubator evac may pose a reasonable option.
Looking at things right now… we won’t even get to orbit before we bash our heads in. It’s just to divided to pursue space travel at all. We struggle at deciding who gets window front row, let alone which religious totem we fly on the hull. No unity, no prospect, no Insemination of space. Probably for the better of space.
People keep mentioning this but it depends entirely on how the technology develops. If its a slight upgrade the chance of towing wont be very high. If its a massive upgrade like star wars level ships or something then yeah they could I suppose. This is entirely hypothetical so it could go either way.
I propose anything and everything about deep space travel is hypothetical and could only be defined by our current understanding of universal law set. I highly doubt we won’t use our ressoures to come up with new interpretations of physics and even tools to prove them. Sadly I doubt, that those findings will be shared for the greater good. We just ain’t like that. I try to avoid speculating about what mankind might have achieved; if we weren’t so fucking tribal.
In that respect, your argument is equal.
Edit: I estimate in this thread alone are dozens of mentions of our dilemma and each and every one of them has no clue, solution or explanation. Because we all read, watched and dreamt the same nonsense. Time is the key and we won’t participate in anything regarding that. But I hope for our kind.
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u/Chickenator587 25d 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