Timeline for Generation ship design - Accommodations
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| Nov 24, 2015 at 1:42 | comment | added | otakucode | @TomášKafka That is not true. It is purely a cultural factor. Even just a few decades ago it was common knowledge that European and Latin American cultures had no sense of 'personal space' and it was seen as a primarily American phenomenon to be bothered by human contact. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 22:31 | comment | added | Tomáš Kafka |
I disagree with personal space part - every time people are packed together closer than their personal bubbles, aggresive behavior ensues. And I'm not sure if personal bubbles are cultural thing.
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Jay | RE the article @MasonWheeler cites: Interesting, but I think the writer is unduly pessimistic. Like, his comments that living in this small isolated society knowing that there's a big Earth back there would cause psychological and social problems. Maybe. But plenty of people throughout history have lived in isolated communities, monasteries, and so forth, without developing pathological problems. He says it would be like being in prison. Maybe so. Plenty of people have served life sentences without going insane. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 19:25 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @AndreiROM: Sure, but... well, just read the article. It's a bit of an eye-opener. Building a ship is one thing. Building one that will keep running for centuries, with no possibility of resupply, and keep a crew/cargo of humans alive (and sane and relatively content so they don't mutiny or kill each other) for all that time... that's a whole other question. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @MasonWheeler - generally speaking building a ship, putting life support in it, generating gravity by spinning the helI out of it .. it's all feasible. Not possible with our current tech, but not out-of-this-world impossible - it's something that we can dream of achieving at some point. If we were discussing attaching rocket engines to a dragon and sending it to Alpha Centauri, then it would be a different story, lol | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 19:04 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | Fair enough. But when you say "the engineering doesn't even have to be too out-of-this-world," it implies that you believe that the tech to build a generation ship is almost available to us today. Or at least that's how I read it. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler |
A generation seed ship is 100% imaginable. The engineering doesn't even have to be too out-of-this-world. This author would beg to differ...
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 18:00 | comment | added | jean | Make your sick is not my intention nor start a flame war. My intention is to clarify not only to you but to anyone reading it. Also... I'm sorry dude but SE sites are not a forum | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 17:47 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @jean - i think you need to remember this is a forum for world building, and thus typically imaginary scenarios. Second, I see no reality-check tag. Third, to build a gigantic ship which is going to allow a human community to flourish for generation is so far out of the scope of current technology it's not even funny. We can barely get to the Moon, and we hope, in a decade or so, Mars. So yes, it is at the OP's discretion how he creates his ship/universe. I have stated some ideas and nothing more. For you to remind me that the OP is the final decision makes is silly to say the least. | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 17:41 | comment | added | jean | OP stated ps. this is a fictive world so relate to all the basic physics and almost everything goes except from Wall-E and "Because magic" so it's let to OP discretion if such technology if possbile or not. If he used a [reality-check] tag. No it's not possible, sorry | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | AndreiROM | Rotating compartments, or some other technology can be invented. After all, this is a sci-fi universe, or the ship wouldn't exist in the first place. Limited gravity-generating tech could be thrown in to make the whole idea more plausible(from a health point of view) | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | jean | Note, if you stick with basic physics there's no way to "generate gravity" unless the ship itself have the same mass of earth. You can simulate gravity by 1) The ship keeps constant accelerating at 1G, 2) if the crew live in a rotating tube (like in the 2001 movie) | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 14:21 | history | edited | AndreiROM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2015 at 14:08 | history | answered | AndreiROM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |