Timeline for Plausible reason not to notice a planet
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| Feb 24, 2020 at 19:06 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | @M.A.Golding, no glitch necessary. The OP said this is a generation ship. The earth-trained professional data officer, who started this journey, would have no difficulty querying the fully functional and up-to-date database about the refueling location; but her grandson, whose mother replaced that fine officer 65 years earlier, lacks such skills. He can read the refueling section of the mission plan, but it is a summary, written by the long-dead bureaucrat who overlooked the habitable planet. A perfectly functional information system and a well informed crew are not the same thing. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 17:02 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | I find it rather hard to believe that the ship's computer systems will not contain all the knowledge of the human race at the time of departure, and will not also received updated data transmitted from earth periodically. So the file on the refueling system should contain all the date available about the seemingly Earth like planet, unless there is some glitch in the data system. If too much data has been lost due to system failure, the colonists may be doomed to die out no matter which planet they settle on. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 15:48 | history | edited | Henry Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2020 at 15:37 | history | answered | Henry Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |