Comments by "Phil Davenport" (@phildavenport4150) on "Science Time"
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The problems are enormous. For instance, the only generation of astronauts guaranteed to have sufficient resources, knowledge, motivation and intelligence to see the mission through is the first. If you want to let the crew interbreed, your 100 generations are going to require a huge supply of healthy and unrelated companions or you'll fairly soon get interbreeding issues, like diminished intellect and health problems unlikely to be successfully managed. Plus, where are you going to store/produce enough food and drink to feed the hordes required to avoid the issues surrounding interbreeding? Cryosleep? Not achieved yet, and in any case, how would the craft be managed in the event of faults occurring? Nah, not gonna happen. We are well and truly stuck here on Terra Firma until we come up with a solid solution to the problem of getting to Alpha Centauri, or any other star system, in a very short period of elapsed time (from the perspective of the crew). That's right, the folding of space/time, or harnessing wormholes (if they exist) are just two of the avenues to pursue.
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