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Here is a ‘real’ example of plans for a generation ship to Proxima B - 58x6 km and several billion tons. It would take 400 years for the...

This is correct. Not only does it just happen, but is to some extent required for human health and proper development. Guts of mice...

Coming in on this a bit late to manage a point by point discussion, but I am of the pessimistic persuasion in this. At the most basic...

My point is that generally given how little we've done in the past 50 years, it's a bit rich to claim the inevitability of indefinite...

There are also biology and human psychology to take into account.

It's a fundamentally different project to a) build a city on Earth; b) build a city on Mars; c) build a city on an exoplanet. They are...

Absolutely. The problem is that we have made so little progress since the Moon landings. In an alternate human history, we might have...

No one with any sense takes Musk seriously in this regard. Not only will no one finance his plans (because there is explicitly no ROI)...

YouTube was inspired by this thread and served up Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd:

ISTm that so many of these arguments are so far ahead of themselves - the technological prerequisites for seriously contemplating this...

With that line of reasoning, then why not just go for the entire human population if its that easy? Just build bigger. Or fit some...

I guess you are right. Just a few days ago, almost 100,000 cricket fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). If you can...

It's impossible to debate with anyone who has lost all touch with reality!

The basics are important. Things in mathematics are what they are defined to be. There is no single concept of "infinity" in...

I think you underestimate the difference in scale and technical feasibility between living on a single planet and finding and moving to...