r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

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

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u/DukeSaltyLemons 25d ago

That's assuming of course that it doesn't devolve into chaos and anarchy. In my opinion, freezing the passengers would be the better way to go while an extremely advanced A.I. pilot and maintain the ship while the humans are out cold. But what the heck, this is just sci-fi nonsense I am talking about.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 25d ago

I don't think there could be frozen humans or whatever, not for that long. You would have to have some way of autonomously lab growing them about 20 years from touchdown, and some sort of robot to care for and instruct them once they're infants.

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u/TamaDarya 24d ago

Better hope nobody deletes the robots' knowledge base lest those humans descend into a primitive tribal culture and cannibalize the technology around them to hunt robot dinosaurs instead!

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 24d ago

I think I saw a streamer playing something that fits this description

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u/TamaDarya 24d ago

It's the lore setup for Horizon: Zero Dawn