I would definitely prefer to be a leader of new world than just be sent to my room.
disguy_ovahea 74 points a year ago
I guess. I’m more of a space socialist, myself. Silly me always assumed that equality and collaboration would be a precursor to colonization of other worlds. Musk is trying so hard to prove me wrong. Lol
disguy_ovahea 29 points a year ago
Put me back to sleep and wake me for the revolution.
confusedbytheBasics 3 points a year ago
If people stopped starving, beating,.and raping children for 2 generations it would be possible. Humans have no need to compete with each other for survival already. If we could just get a generation or two with minimal human inflicted trauma it would be obvious.
Seems possible to me.
Diplomjodler3 4 points a year ago
Space is big. You can always go out and find a different place.
merc 7 points a year ago
Except you're basically a caveman. You leave and you're one of the world's foremost engineers, trusted to know everything necessary to build a new settlement from scratch, with no help from Earth.
You get there and your engineering knowledge is 3000 years out of date. The only people who are interested in your skills are archaeologists and anthropologists. They use an app to ask you questions like "Could you demonstrate how you used woodpaper to wipe your anus?"
disguy_ovahea 4 points a year ago
What a fascinating point. I’d be fine holding antique engineering story hour as my contribution. Who knows what old gems were lost over the years. It sounds like fun, even if I was just a novelty.
merc 2 points a year ago
If the records survived, they might not need anything from you, because they've already watched it all on video. But, maybe some of them would be interested to see it in person once. Even if we know how warriors fought 3000 years ago, it would still be interesting to see a true expert warrior using their weapons in a way that took a lifetime to master.
If the records didn't survive, you might be a valuable person to study for a while, but it might quickly get tiring to basically be a sideshow performer, there to delight the people who think of you as this ultra-primitive thing that's nearly an animal.
I would bet it would be pretty frustrating for most people after a while. You'd have this mental image of yourself as a sophisticated, modern person who was respected by his/her peers. Suddenly, you'd be living in a world where people around you might be struggling to contain their disgust. Things that are normal to you like eating meat or peeing in a toilet might be seen as animal-like behaviours.
If you're lucky, then your sophisticated construction and engineering techniques might be seen as impressive feats of craftsmanship. In a world where robots fasten everything that needs fastening, just driving in a nail or using a screwdriver might be seen as something really fancy, like we'd now see the kinds of stonemasonry that they might have had millennia ago.
But, if your self-image is that of an advanced engineer, and the best you can hope for is to be seen as a quaint old-timey craftsman, that might not be very satisfying.
disguy_ovahea 2 points a year ago
You’re absolutely correct from a “best practice” standpoint, but only the standards make it into records. That’s the source of our admiration of “old-fashioned know-how.”
Real life experience can’t be catalogued. The index doesn’t have dirt under its nails. Sure, I’d be obsolete and out of place in the day-to-day, but I’d always be ready to coyboy up in a crisis.
In the meantime, I could probably make a decent living creating one-of-a-kind newly handcrafted antiques for the neo-hipsters.
I think I’d really enjoy our movie, btw.
HowAbt2morrow 18 points a year ago
Curious that the star is called Barnard because that’s the name of the doctor that first performed a successful heart transplant.
HowAbt2morrow 4 points a year ago
I consulted my Ivy League homeslice Chad G.P.T. III about the surname Barnard and he promptly provided the following response:
“… the surname Barnard, it’s not super common, but it’s not rare either. Here’s a quick breakdown: • In the U.S., it ranks around #2,500 to #3,000 in terms of frequency. That puts it in the mid-range — you’ll definitely run into it now and then, but it’s not like Smith or Johnson (if you’re looking for Johnson, so is Chad) • It’s more common in South Africa, partly because of Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the guy who did the first human heart transplant. The name has some Dutch/Afrikaans roots. • Also seen in the UK, Australia, and Canada with moderate frequency.
Origin-wise, it comes from the Germanic personal name Bernhard (“bear” + “brave/strong”) — which morphed into Barnard in English-speaking countries.
Shardikprime 1 point a year ago
Minmaxing LOTR? Nice
RizzRustbolt 76 points a year ago
Call that one a win.
Take risk of signing up for a 3000 year hyper-sleep trip.
Reap the rewards of being a pioneer without having to do any of the hard work.
Manifish_Destiny 42 points a year ago
join intergalactic ship pilgrimage hoping to be a pioneer to a new world
Land to late stage capitalism and the same oppression you were just trying to escape.
Id shoot myself immediately.
SkyezOpen 11 points a year ago
A mission in starfield (shit game but honestly decent writing at the very least) included just this. A generation ship finally arrived at its destination long after FTL travel was invented to find that the intended colony planet was already a fancy resort planet. You have to broker some kind of agreement between the parties.
RizzRustbolt 5 points a year ago
That's why you outfit your ship with mass drivers.
Any parasites roaming around on your paradise? A couple hundred rocks at 2% light speed will clear that up.
Angry_Autist 3 points a year ago
Nice nice, and in the 3000 intervening years they've developed alpha particle cannons that shred your entire swarm of rocks and puny physical spaceship to white hot quantum loops as they sip megachampagne on their continent sized airships as they watch your fleet unwillingly transition to light
The gun that fired the barrage was the size of a juice box floating somewhere in orbit, they have millions of them
You didn't even get a chance to pull your finger off of the mass driver button
Angry_Autist 8 points a year ago
As if that future civilization would treat you as anything but a zoo specimen
SaharaMaleikuhm 4 points a year ago
Damn, you make it sound better and better. Just sent me out already!
Spacehooks 67 points a year ago
Jerks didn't come pick me up on way there? Wtf dudes.
HowAbt2morrow 25 points a year ago
That’s on you bruh. You shouldn’t have placed that bumper sticker that said, “if this spacecrafts a rockin, don’t come a knockin”.
Spacehooks 2 points a year ago
Omfg ugh why did i do that!
MrAlternateTape 2 points a year ago
Just be glad they managed to fly around your ship and not through it. Navigating at those speeds is hard, matching speed with an older ship, connecting to it and transfering all the people over is probably also difficult.
Not to mention those in the older ship are probably brought into hypersleep in a different way then more modern ships, so they might not actually be equipped to handle the people from the older ship.
Shardikprime 60 points a year ago
Not only that, but 3000 years into the future, language has changed so much that the plural of SHEEP is now SHOOP
That's right, androids do dream of electric SHOOP
Shit's wild yo
NikkiDimes 13 points a year ago
1000 years alone is a wildly long time for language. Granted, written language and education are more accessible than ever, so I imagine language evolution will be significantly slower than it once was, but still I found this short of English over the past 1000 years to be really interesting
spicehoarder 15 points a year ago
Have you seen how fast slang is evolving currently? I can't even imagine translating something like "chat, am I cooked?" to my grandma.
Also on a side note; have you noticed the rise in lisps?
WhatsTheHoldup 16 points a year ago
I can't even imagine translating something like "chat, am I cooked?" to my grandma.
"Hey folks, am I in trouble?"
Shardikprime 1 point a year ago
Riddle me this, Lads: do I find myself in a pickle?
NikkiDimes 5 points a year ago
True! Fad based language spreads like wildfire with modern tech! At the same time, I feel like trends like that fall out of favour just as fast. It's definitely a wild time for language evolution.
markovs_gun 5 points a year ago
3000 years is insanely long for language. Consider that the mother fucking alphabet was invented around 1000 BC*, and basically no languages that anyone still speaks existed in their modern forms. Homer hadn't written the Illiad and the Odyssey yet, and the standard Greek that came to be defined by these works had also yet to develop. If you went back to 1000 BC you'd have no idea what was going on.
*Although previous alphabets existed, the Phoenician alphabet that became the basis for pretty much all modern writing systems in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia was invented around 1100 BC
NikkiDimes 1 point a year ago
Dude, listen to 1000 CE English. It's 90% jibberish even at that point.
markovs_gun 2 points a year ago
I know I was just saying 3000 years and basically nobody alive today understands the language. Even people who devote their whole lives to the languages around at that time are basically just making informed guesses on pronunciation and would probably struggle considerably to understand an actual speaker.
Angry_Autist 2 points a year ago
so are tiktok comment sections, your point?
SwingingTheLamp 1 point a year ago
fr
Mustakrakish 8 points a year ago
Shoop da whoop?
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WoodScientist 8 points a year ago
Could be even worse than that. You could arrive to find a planet dominated by talking apes with humans living as primitive animals, only to later find that your ship whipped back around and you were on Earth all along.
RizzRustbolt 5 points a year ago
I love you, Dr. Zaius!
WoodScientist 6 points a year ago
You know, this is the live-action remake Disney needs to actually make. They own the rights to The Simpsons and Planet of the Apes. They could absolutely make a feature-length Planet of the Apes musical. And I don't want them to use the CGI apes like they use in the modern films. Bring back the 1960s makeup. If you're going to do it, do it right.
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Zoboomafoo 1 point a year ago
That'd be why I'd sign up
ieatpillowtags 32 points a year ago
I read an interesting book based on this premise called The Forever War, it’s been awhile but it was pretty good!
Similar premise but with soldiers sent to fight a war and eventually finding it already over.
Katana314 21 points a year ago
I remember one where a sect of humanity was being persecuted, and left to try to find a better life in the stars. They failed to find a life, gave up and returned home, but their interstellar trip consumed so many Earth years that by the time they returned, Earth had moved on from persecution and eagerly welcomed their historical memories.
Sadly, I forget the name; it may have been a short story.
yeather 1 point a year ago
Something similar happens in the sequel to The Forever War. The main character and his wife are fed up living on a colony controlled by the shared conciousness names Man. So they decide to take a ship into near light speed for the equivalent of 300000 years, only to be stopped by god, told god was bored and that he was going to leave them all behind, then changing physics to prevent them from going so far into the future.
TachyonTele 1 point a year ago
I do this with bill collectors.
KoboldCoterie 7 points a year ago
You might also enjoy The Shoulders of Giants.
ieatpillowtags 1 point a year ago
That was good, thank you!
DoucheBagMcSwag 1 point a year ago
"fuck you, Sir!"
FordBeeblebrox 32 points a year ago
3 Body Problem has an interesting take on this. Faster than light travel is not possible but communication is, meaning we’re anxiously preparing for an alien war that won’t happen for 400 years but they can see everything we do in real time thanks to quantum entanglement.
Angry_Autist 8 points a year ago
FTL coms are a concession to the story, it would have been terrible without it
IRL quantum entanglement can't ever provide causality breaking info. In very simple terms, you need correlation to know when the data stream began as just observing the resulting spins still seem just as random before and after the event.
In even more simple terms: Whatever message they can send even if pre-agreed on seems like random heat results until you know the exact moment the transmission began, as confirmed by a light lagged message.
In less simple terms, the misunderstanding comes from treating the metaphor of 'flipping the spin north switch' as a literal thing instead of a less-than ideal 'lies to children' of what is actually happening to particles that experience spin transition, and the meaning of 'entangled' is both less and more strange than people understand.
But again, 3 body problem would have been a terrible story without it,t hat's why it's science fiction
merc 4 points a year ago
I managed to finish the first book, but it was so terrible that I wasn't willing to read any more or watch the show.
The whole book sets up a big mystery, then solves that mystery with the biggest deux ex machina bullshit ever committed to paper.
Angry_Autist 0 points a year ago
macguffins are always just to drive the plot forward, their satisfaction as a solution is usually secondary.
In simpler terms, they paint the cover of the comic book first and sometimes overbid for the purpose of sensationalism, so sometimes Superman has to pretend to punch Lois Lane
merc 2 points a year ago
It's not a MacGuffin. A MacGuffin isn't important to the story, it's just there to serve as motivation for the characters. In the Three Body Problem, the mystery of what happened to science is central to the plot of the entire book.
This isn't "pretending to punch Lois Lane". This is "why the hell did Superman just kill Lois Lane!?" The whole plot of the story is that science stops working. Scientists are killing themselves because of it. One of the characters is seeing a countdown when he closes his eyes. Aside from the Three-Body-Problem game parts, the whole rest of the book is structured as a mystery that they're trying to solve. This mystery is the primary motivation for the characters in the book, and it's presented as a mystery for the reader to speculate about.
Basically, the book is structured as if it were a murder on a train, and the whole structure of the story suggests that someone on the train is the murderer. But, it turns out that the murderer is Zeus, who descended from the heavens, killed the murder victim for his own reasons, and left. Ta-da, mystery solved! (And there's the additional bullshit that scientists are committing suicide because their experiments are failing. That's just so ridiculous. Actual scientists would be so excited by unexpected results. The way to upset a scientist wouldn't be to have something appear to break the laws of physics. What would upset real scientists would be a replication crisis: either they can't match someone else's work, or people call into question their work because nobody can match the results they're getting.)
And those are just the problems with the "A" plot. The "B" plot is the ultra-stupid simulation of life on a planet in a 3-body system. You know what life would be like in that kind of system: nonexistent. But no, you're supposed to believe in people being flattened and rehydrated. I mean, come ON. And you're also supposed to believe that people are playing this "game" and loving it. Has the author ever actually played a game? Has the author ever met any people?
The writing is bad, the characters are bad, the science is bad. It's just a bad book. It's a book that dumb people read and they think the author is smart, and if the author is smart the book must be good, it just went above their heads. But, the author isn't smart, the book isn't smart, the book isn't good.
blind3rdeye 2 points a year ago
I haven't read the books, but I did watch the show... I enjoyed the first half, but the second half had so much implausible bullshit that I couldn't really recommend it. I mean, the first half also had crazy impossible tech - but I feel that's ok because its part of the setup premise. The stuff I didn't like in the second half was more implausible decision making and strategising (and also implausible uses for impossible tech).
In any case, I really feel like they wasted a strong setup. I was disappointed at the end, and I'm not intending to watch the next session.
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Couldbealeotard 6 points a year ago
Which version of the series is better to watch? The American version or the Chinese version?
daellat 4 points a year ago
From what I've heard the Chinese version is rather literal to the books to a fault.
Having read the books I enjoyed the Netflix series, but understand they made some changes to both adapt it to a series (fine) and made a lot of characters westen (a bit unnecessary maybe).
I am excited for season 2
Couldbealeotard 2 points a year ago
Two different shows
Zoboomafoo 0 points a year ago
Well the Chinese version on Prime doesn't have any English subtitles so I guess it depends on if you can speak Mandarin
Zoboomafoo 1 point a year ago
Weird, mine didn't.
spicystraw 4 points a year ago
Good show, fantastic books. Recommend to anyone reading this comment and are remotely interested in sci-fi. A lot of facinatong ideas explored throughout the series.
BuboScandiacus 28 points a year ago
Technically you just slept through the whole thing
rational_lib 26 points a year ago
That's another solution to the Fermi paradox. FTL travel is impossible, but can't actually be proven to be impossible, so no one wants to be the sucker.
SaharaMaleikuhm 23 points a year ago
How is that not great for me? Setting up a colony must be hard work and all around pretty horrible.
NeptuneOrbit 3 points a year ago
It's like a start up. Show up early and buy in on low stocks, work your ass off, retire at 40. I'd assume it's something like that. Pick the best place to build your house, claim all the resources.
Or maybe he just wanted solitude.
zombieshotgun 22 points a year ago
BuboScandiacus 3 points a year ago
What’s the name of the movie?
BuboScandiacus 3 points a year ago
Ty !
TimewornTraveler 3 points a year ago
lmao havent seen that one. "Welcome to the future! Nothing's changed."
Prime_Minister_Keyes 2 points a year ago
This little detour...
ThatGuy46475 14 points a year ago
At least you aren’t a soldier ready to restart a war that’s been settled
ultrahamster64 14 points a year ago
I mean if they get there ang there are like ruins and remnants, that's going to be a good sci-fi horror-detective-thriller story
boonhet 3 points a year ago
Yeah, what's the new civilization's tech like? Bound to be more advancements than just travel speed. Do they have sufficiently fast FTL communication with Earth to keep up with the tech advancements?
LovableSidekick 2 points a year ago
It was also the plot of a sci fi story Far Centaurus by AE Van Vogt.
RangerJosey 11 points a year ago
There's an HFY story where the guy in the slow ship became a tourist attraction for the advanced humans that beat him to his destination.
His bank account had grown to billions and they offered him billions more to keep it going.
argh_another_username 11 points a year ago
With some variations, used already a few times in games and series.
angrystego 10 points a year ago
That's the plot of a nice obscure theatre piece I know, but they don't travel that far, are awake, and see the other ships pass. It's awsome and fun for the audience and super frustrating for the characters.
angrystego 4 points a year ago
It's never been officially published and it's not in English - it trully is obscure. It was played several times though with enough success and I do have the whole thing on my computer somewhere, probably (or at least I know who to ask for it). I'm not sure it's worth reading in automatic translation, but if you're interested, I could send it to you.
MoonlightFox 7 points a year ago
Yep, and the biggest letdown. I expected the main quest to be meh, but side quests to he pretty fun.
They had the opportunity to create a really cool mission out of this, but instead created one of the most interesting stories and least fun questlines.
Vespair 1 point a year ago
It wasn't the only memorable thing for me, but it was memorable. Honestly I still think Starfield is a great basic framework for a video game, I just wish they put an actual finished video game onto that framework
WoodScientist 9 points a year ago
The real solution to this is simple. You're a ship full of colonists dreaming of settling a new world, right? So go settle a new world! Ask the citizens of your target world for an FTL-capable spaceship, climb aboard, pick a new target further afield, and head off into the wild blue yonder. It seems that's the least they could do in such a situation.
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merc 2 points a year ago
Except the new FTL-capable ships are the result of 3000 years of advancement. You wouldn't even be able to figure out how to use the bathroom, let alone do the navigation and piloting to reach a new planet.
Imagine we had some Egyptians from -1000 BC who suddenly arrived unexpectedly in the modern world. They think Ra, Anubis and Horus control their fates. Iron is the most advanced technology they know of, but you're proposing we make them astronauts?
WoodScientist 3 points a year ago
Iron is the most advanced technology they know of, but you’re proposing we make them astronauts?
Honestly, that would be fucking hilarious to watch.
Localhorst86 8 points a year ago
So you're telling me, someone else did all the work already, I don't have to lift a finger? Awesome.
Makeitstop 3 points a year ago
Also an episode of Babylon 5.
devfuuu 3 points a year ago
I caught a few early episodes on Syfy channel and they didn't impress me much. After a few days I saw a few more random episodes and started to care and get attached to the story and characters.
I've watched what I think is everything that is out now, 2 seasons I guess. I'm liking it a lot more than I would expect. High potential for it to keep being good. But yeah, the starting episodes are a little slow.
lugal 2 points a year ago
Thanks for the warning but I actually already enjoyed the first episode very much. I like the setting, the characters and their dynamics and I think it has a lot of potential while already being fun to watch. I'm looking forward to the rest of it and thanks again for the recommendation! And by the way: It's renewed for a third season.
devfuuu 2 points a year ago
Yep, then I'm sure you're gonna like it. I was really surprised in some situations in the plot and like where it's going. At the end of s2 I was craving for more really hard. Very happy for the s3 being approved.
WoodScientist 1 point a year ago
I did like the gag where the robot didn't understand the boundaries of practical jokes and amputated someone's leg as a prank.
King_Bob_IV 3 points a year ago
Very very very good
peteypete420 7 points a year ago
Do I dream on the trip? Do I remember any of the dreams? Thatd be pretty cool.
Simulation6 11 points a year ago
Yes, but all your dreams are about the Teletubbies for some inexplicable reason.
SynopsisTantilize 1 point a year ago
Rule34 Teletubbies for 3000 years. And you're in the cuck chair for that entire ride.
Angry_Autist 4 points a year ago
3000 years of dreaming would radically warp your sense of reality I think. Laying down all those repeating neuron paths century over century I doubt anything would be left of your recollection of the waking world
Waking up would be like being born, nothing would make sense
Aaaand now I have a new story idea
realitista 7 points a year ago
I'm psyched. Less work for me!
OriginalUsername7 7 points a year ago
Surely if you’re sending someone on a 3000 year journey, you’ve prepared for the possibility of making a faster ship in the time between them leaving and arriving at their destination!?
baatliwala 7 points a year ago
People intrinsically know their some of their loved ones are going to die before them, that doesn't mean they won't cry when it happens.
hopesdead 7 points a year ago
Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.
Tap for spoiler
The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.
The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.
EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
GreatAlbatross 3 points a year ago
Or in a similar vein, the ship's cat has evolved into a suave humanoid with impeccable taste in fashion.
GoodLuckToFriends 1 point a year ago
Better than the sort of intelligent final evolution of the cat you released when the captain attempted to confiscate it that has a selection of fine outfits and hair gel.
Zoboomafoo 1 point a year ago
I thought you were talking about the Adam Sander movie Spaceman
hopesdead 1 point a year ago
No, and that is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar which people thought was a rip off of Project Haily Mary by Andy Weir (which I read and loved). When the trailer for Spaceman was released, Weir had to go on social media and tell fans Spaceman of Bohemia was published before his novel.
EDIT: I did not read Spaceman of Bohemia.
LovableSidekick 2 points a year ago
It was was an AE van Vogt story, Far Centaurus. Took me a while to track this down, as all I remembered was the general plot and an orange cover showing a flying astronaut filming a giant sea monster, which I don't think even happens in the book. Van Vogt originally wrote the short story, about a spaceship on a 500-year voyage to Alpha Centauri with a sleeping crew. They arrive to find Earth people who routinely make the trip in hours using FTL, who decided to let the sleeper ship finish its journey. Van Vogt later combined this story with two others into a novel called Quest for the Future - one of the first Science Fiction Book Club books I bought in high school.
cosmictrickster 1 point a year ago
I think Terry Pratchett touched on it as well - I think the book was Strata (been a while since I read it). There were arguments about whether to bring the people out of cryosleep due to the effects of culture shock or depression.
VitoRobles 2 points a year ago
Also can someone check if I turned off the stove? Thx
TachyonTele 7 points a year ago
"what are you doing multigenerational step bro?"
Shipairtime 6 points a year ago
Is HFY a community over here yet?
RizzRustbolt 5 points a year ago
Hot Female Yetis.
Quadhammer 2 points a year ago
Thats better tbh
Shipairtime 2 points a year ago
Humanity Fuck Yeah! It is a science fiction writing community.
Doctor_Satan 5 points a year ago
Or you wake up and there's nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn't reached earth yet.
WoodScientist 3 points a year ago
Fortunately that really couldn't happen. Supergiant stars are unlikely to be promising colonization targets.
shneancy 1 point a year ago
that sounds like a plot hole so let's put some plot into it
a lot of technological advancements happen in times of war, that's when scientists get the funding to make weapons, but that research doesn't go to waste afterwards, the knowledge stays and can help in times of peace
what if the ship was sent, and a great war broke out soon after, all records and those who remembered it were destroyed, all whilst technology advanced becuase of the race to invent new weapons, and now the knowledge is being utilised for a more cheerful cause - space exploration, and FTL travel
the forgotten ship would peacefully sail across the great dark blissfully unaware of what happened, of how their mission has been erased from history, regardless if it was on purpose or accidentally. Their eventual arrival would make news across all human colonies, their language so ancient, their biology similar but in a strange way imperfect, living relics of the old world ripped right out of already faded pages in history, what a shock it would be for both sides of the encounter
BigBananaDealer -1 points a year ago
guess you didnt play a lot of quests then. lot of them have good execution, namely the vanguard questline
ICastFist 4 points a year ago
It was decent and has its moments, but it only works because starfield is a universe where phones with cameras and the internet don't exist, and instant communication only exists when the plot remembers it's not Fallout, which is not often. Secret military research? Believable. Said research getting out of hand and destroying a whole colony? Believable. Nobody giving a single flying fuck to said colony outside the questline? Weird. Not a single mention of repression and censorship about the event? Even weirder. Then again, after the terrormorph attacks New Atlantis, nobody gives a fuck (because cameras and phones don't exist, nobody is asking about relatives or friends that are missing), not even the "TV Station". After the damage is removed from the city, instant amnesia hits everyone.
Karyoplasma 5 points a year ago
Back to the future that is less distant than the future you wanted to go. A Hollywood classic.
NigelFrobisher 5 points a year ago
“Hard” Sci-Fi stories making a big deal about faster than light not being possible but then treating pods that magically freeze and revive a human body for years as such a triviality that we invented them by 2004 or something in the timeline.
Saltycracker 5 points a year ago
You make it to earth and you forgot the historical reason why you avoid earth. It is a prison planet
AnUnusualRelic 4 points a year ago
But at least you arrive well rested.
Capybara_mdp 1 point a year ago
Its like taking Amtrak instead of a flight!
vga 4 points a year ago
I love how Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (2004) opens up with this. But also funny how the inventors of the tech were such douchebags that they casually used it to just be there when the first mission to Mars landed. But hey, at least they didn't have to do the return trip.
Godwins_Law 2 points a year ago
I always feel like Peter Watts is severely under appreciated
SethTaylor 2 points a year ago
Oh that is absolutely brilliant. I never thought of that 😆
Hobbes_Dent 2 points a year ago
Once upon a time that was pretty much the novel I was going to write. Had a bunch of notes and shit. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Now I just hope that happens to Elon and his sperm ark. Wakes from cryo or some shit to find we survived his global winter idea and set his car on a pike in front of Fort Neveragain.
Letsdothisok 2 points a year ago
Got any older memes pug?
Angry_Autist 1 point a year ago
FTL isn't possible, ERBs would pastafy any matter passing through them and there is no way to control the other end, and take Kardashev scale 3 civ at least (and that's even pretending the Kardashev scale isn't the purest daydream fantasy)
dumbluck 0 points a year ago
Christopher Mason understands the Relativity of that situation. https://relativitypodcast.com/
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NickwithaC 2 points a year ago
It got deleted so of course I NEED to know!
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4. No bots
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5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
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Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
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The first crew would face the most difficult challenges. Imagine the relief after expecting to establish the fundamentals of civilization, and instead are just assigned your living quarters.
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