Timeline for Motivations for interstellar colonizations
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| Nov 11, 2022 at 15:04 | comment | added | Arcturus | Some forms of FTL are consistent with General Relativity. Not exceeding C on a local space-time, but warping spacetime around a spacecraft, could allow your spacecraft to travel FTL, without violating the laws of physics. Negative matter can be replaced with the Casimir effect here, for warping spacetime.extremetech.com/extreme/…. | |
| May 20, 2015 at 4:44 | answer | added | Lawnmower Man | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 19:06 | vote | accept | Twelfth | ||
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 7:36 | comment | added | user2338816 |
@Twelfth Does that contradict initial points such as Communication is no faster than light? Or do those only apply to humans at this time in the scenario? Knowledge of existence of FTL is almost as valuable as knowledge of FTL itself.
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 2:41 | answer | added | Peteris | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | Twelfth | @user2338816 - they are capable more, however we are not aware there are during any of this. Answers so far have been impressive...I need to sift through this information before accepting one | |
| S Nov 30, 2014 at 16:04 | history | suggested | Vi. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Why does a dog lick its...? | |
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 9:42 | answer | added | user2338816 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 1:09 | comment | added | user2338816 | Is the "alien" therefore at least 20 years from getting his(her?) info back to his home? Or are they capable of something more? (I assume their home is farther away than the intended human colony.) | |
| S Nov 29, 2014 at 22:03 | history | suggested | Scimonster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | eipi10 | For additional ideas you could look at A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge and the Revelation Space series (five novels) by Alastair Reynolds. Both involve societies that colonize other star systems with sub-light travel. | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 17:00 | answer | added | Pavel Janicek | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 16:32 | answer | added | Get-HomeByFiveOClock | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 16:30 | answer | added | user4239 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Michael McGriff | Does your technology include cryogenic freezing? This would help you get over some of the time delay for a large percentage of the colonists. Something along the lines of 2001 A Space Odyssey (without the computer killing all the passengers...). | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | user4239 | " There is really little gain for Earth, other than knowing humans now exist outside of the solar system" - according to Elon Musk's VERY persuasive argument, that's an enormous, worth-anything, gain. You have just significantly hedged your extinction risk as a species/civilization. | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 15:48 | answer | added | tls | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 9:56 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 3:58 | history | edited | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2014 at 3:27 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 20 | |
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| Nov 29, 2014 at 1:26 | comment | added | Twelfth | @kaiser - updated the alien contact section. It's minor contact with an explorer and not much else. Explorer is actually trying to discover why his colleague crashed and makes contact with us while human explorers are trying to find the rest of the crash site artifacts. 15 years in transit is just a reference to our communication can't exceed the speed of light, so a message sent from the colony would arrive at earth in 15 years at best (probably longer) and vice versa, earth could send new blueprints and documents that would take 15 years for the communication signal to arrive. | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 1:23 | history | edited | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2014 at 1:21 | comment | added | kaiser | Btw, for some good ideas I recommend watching this overdramatic documentary that has some interesting points on multi generation space travel to colonize different worlds. Don't take it too serious, but it's ok for scavenging ideas and to look at topics you might have missed (like religion, time spans to launch rockets for parts, etc). | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 0:49 | comment | added | kaiser | Regarding communication, by stating "15 years in transit" you mean from the final destination/the colony to earth and not during travel, right? Also, could you specify the "contact to aliens" part? Because if they are just sending out signals, like we do on earth and we happen to intercept them, then they might not even know of us but just make the same mistake of randomly letting us know of their existence. | |
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 22:36 | answer | added | celtschk | timeline score: 18 | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 21:26 | history | asked | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |