Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star

Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by brianbreslin on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:16AM (#20214017)

Would a vessel from 50 years from now beat the original crew there? If we assume we are advancing speed-wise by X% each year, the poor folks sent and likely put into cryo-stasis would get lapped by people who left 10 years or 25 years after them.

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Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by booleandilemma on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:23PM (#20218580)

Imagine waking up out of your cryo-stasis and seeing humans already living on the planet you were sent to colonize? That would be weird, to say the least.

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Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by Moxdi on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:34PM (#20218684)

I bet there's a science fiction novel about that

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Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by brianbreslin on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:22PM (#20219052)

If there isn't someone should write it.

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Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by aaronax on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:34PM (#20220366)

I have read one. Many years ago, don't remember much about it. But I'm pretty sure it also discussed how all of the "future folk" were disgusted with the smell of the ones that had been traveling in cryo for 200 years. Too much perfume/deodorant...they didn't like the flower smells anymore as I believe they had engineered themselves to not perspire any more.

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Re:Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a ne... by kjs3 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @04:21PM (#20217963)

There are a number of SF stories where this is the plot.

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