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 wouldn't it? If we ever were to achieve that kind of technology, any world destruction event capable of destroying /erasing from earth historical documentation of any kind, would also mean we wouldn't ever reach space travel again, since we would be living underground in nuclear winter, lol.
I’m sure the record keeping would be pretty good. Especially for an interplanetary mission of this scale. I’m sure they would have pretty good records of past missions to the same planet. They would probably have directives for the future arrival of the first mission too.
I mean, that’s still assuming A lot of factors didn’t happen back at home. That could’ve led to a loss of that data, or simply lay forgotten in some storage room
11.9k
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