Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Interstellar Space Arks - Humanity's Exodus From Earth" video.

@michaelsommers2356 There's machines that have lasted for over a hundred years. Pumps, engines, etc. Not sure what you mean with "complex". The ISS wasn't supposed to last longer. There challenges of concept and challenges in specifics. Of course in futurism we are talking about challenges in the concepts: What can in principle allow X? For an interstellar spaceship that's the propulsion and shielding. Repair/self repair and redundancies are pretty straight forward conceptually although of course it would need work in detail. So in effect that just ads to the weight.
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The main problem is not biological evolution but evolution of goals. The people you allow to leave to solar system might become your enemies in the future. Besides it makes absolutely no sense to travel to another solar system because your home planet is somehow made uninhabitable. If you can build an interstellar starship you can easily build space habitats. An interstellar starship is a space habitat, plus propulsion, plus shielding, plus tons of redundancies and self repair mechanisms. If you can build one, you can live anywhere in the galaxy anyways and don't need planets.
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You haven't held a calculator since high school, I wouldn't rely on you to tell anyone what's the chance for anything or what's possible.
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@timrobinson513 How tf is what you are doing any more important? And why tf do you think they would have fewer things to do in the first place? In fact there's probably more to do bcs you can control everything about the artificial habitat.
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@PRH123 People from 1940 would find a smartphone way more impressive than an interstellar spacecraft.
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@theosmid8321 Wtf are you talking about? There is no reason to think that live on an interstellar spaceship would be uncomfortable. Indeed it might be a paradise and better than anything anyone ever had in the past. In an artificial habitat you can control everything. You can make it rain when you want, make the sun shine when you want, even modify the gravity.
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I wonder where people take the arrogance from to make predictions about the next "50+" years. Why "suspended animation"? You don't have to send people and if you do the ones, who arrive, don't have to be the same that departed. Even if you only go at 1% of the speed of light on average you reach proxima centauri in under 500 years.
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You can bring a solar sail and also use the electric charge of the heliosphere to slow down by turning on electro-magnets.
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