Timeline for Can a generation ship withstand its own oxygen and daily wear for many thousands of years?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 18, 2019 at 12:11 | comment | added | Florian Schaetz | The old idea to simply send unmaned drones from earth into every direction might help here. The drone reaches a star system, builds a basic asteroid mining system and starts stockpiling resources until it has enough to start building further drones. If you got such a network in place, you could actually hop from system to system and get all the replacement resources you need on the way. Additionally, it works also nicely for exploration purposes. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 9:35 | comment | added | MSalters | No need to mine planets. Uninhabitable comets and dwarf planets are much better supply sources because of their lower gravity. So you'd hop from star to star, refueling on each stop, until you arrive at your final destination where there's a habitable planet. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 15:41 | comment | added | Pierre Cathé | @Whitecold That's a good basis for an answer of your own, but I think if there were a habitable planet close by, then we wouldn't have the question at all. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 15:31 | comment | added | Whitecold | Because your next planet is far, far away, and extracting resources is hard, especially when you have to get them into orbit. So the best strategy is to select a habitable star system, go there, build up a colony, and once it grew large enough it can build another generation ship that goes on. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 13:53 | history | edited | Pierre Cathé | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 13:53 | comment | added | Pierre Cathé | @Whitecold Why would it be an issue to just refill your fuel tank at the next planet and start a route to the next one ? | |
| May 16, 2019 at 13:38 | comment | added | Whitecold | Interstellar space is quite lackluster in terms of any material available. We have a hard time coming up with a propulsion system that can even get you up to speed once, never mind several times. The next star you'll reach is will be your destination. | |
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| May 16, 2019 at 9:48 | history | answered | Pierre Cathé | CC BY-SA 4.0 |