Cryosleep in earth would be pretty baller. Imagine all the people who'd sign up to just skip ahead 50 years.
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Couldn't be bothered to pick him up on the way.
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.
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.
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Technically you just slept through the whole thing
The Fry Maneuver
At least you aren’t a soldier ready to restart a war that’s been settled
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.
that would work in theory except the people who colonized your planet are Republicans and can only tell you, "it's not our responsibility to take care of you. why don't you make your own FTL drive. BTW we're impounding your ship because you need a place to stay while you build your FTL drive. what's that? no, you're going to need a permit to build one. welcome to the free world, the best is yet to come."
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Do I dream on the trip? Do I remember any of the dreams? Thatd be pretty cool.
Yes, but all your dreams are about the Teletubbies for some inexplicable reason.
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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
Babylon 5 had an episode on this. A sleeper ship was launched and a few years later we got jump gate tech from an alien race.
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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
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.
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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.
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So you're telling me, someone else did all the work already, I don't have to lift a finger? Awesome.
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.
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