“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.
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You make it to earth and you forgot the historical reason why you avoid earth. It is a prison planet
Riffing on the meme
it'd still be cool as fuck, i wouldn't even be mad
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?
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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.
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.
Sounds awesome not only you skipped the hardest part you have everything setup and get to live a good life. Unless of course that was your goal to experience building the colony.
How is that not great for me? Setting up a colony must be hard work and all around pretty horrible.
I think that's exactly what one would be hoping for. One does this to escape the reality of human civilization and seek the adventure of building it over again.
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.
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
Shoop da whoop?
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
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?
I can't even imagine translating something like "chat, am I cooked?" to my grandma.
"Hey folks, am I in trouble?"
Riddle me this, Lads: do I find myself in a pickle?
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.
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.
As if that future civilization would treat you as anything but a zoo specimen
Damn, you make it sound better and better. Just sent me out already!
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.
Don’t have to fll. Just have to be a third faster to give them 1000 years head start
one of the, like 3, interesting quests in Starfield was based on that!
Interesting premise, shit execution, as is the case with every quest in starfaild
This is the plot of a short story, Far Centaurus, that I read a long time ago.
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.
I would definitely prefer to be a leader of new world than just be sent to my room.
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
What if you set out with the idea of starting socialist utopia on a new planet and get there to find booming corporate dystopia?
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.
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
Well at least you didn’t have to spend the rest of your life building civilisation from scratch.
Jerks didn't come pick me up on way there? Wtf dudes.
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.
Oh that is absolutely brilliant. I never thought of that 😆