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An idea I've had tonight: The 10,000 year mission.
A spacecraft sent to another star on the assumption that it is going to be the last ship there.
A message in a bottle as a bet on human progress.
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Ivan Kirigin
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Fun math shows that sometimes it is worth waiting for better tech which moves faster. The crew that leaves later can arrive sooner.
researchgate.net/publication/26… pic.twitter.com/mBywow1Lir
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Arpan Gupta
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We had something similar during the Age of Exploration.
"Sailors were convinced that venturing beyond ,.., would be suicidal, both because of the climate and because of the impossibility of returning to Portugal "
journals.openedition.org/etudesafricain…
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Jeff Garzik
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Absolutely. SciFi already went there. Sometimes it takes generations to reach a destination, necessitating a generation ship: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generatio…
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