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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by Cthulhu_ on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:37AM (#45604142)
If there is a need for it, probably, but we'd need to be able to keep people alive for that long first. To date, the longest anyone has been in space has been 14 months. To make it work you'd need to produce food, artificial gravity, etc.
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by rubyfan on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:15AM (#45604410)
So maybe we’d see sustainable colonies orbiting the earth first?
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by 2cynykyl on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:43AM (#45604648)
We should start with a sustainable colony _on_ earth as a proof of concept. :-)
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by prerok on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:16AM (#45606447)
Nah, not needed. Let's just go straight to Mars. Real men test in production. /s
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by pjc50 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:39AM (#45606739)
Only a madman would get onto a generation ship on a one-way non-abandonable non-rescuable trip without seeing the proof of a sustainable colony orbiting the earth first.

Given the acceleration and (eco)system bring-up challenges, I suspect it would take more than one generation from "keel laying" to the ship first leaving the solar system. You'd have a generation living in a partly-constructed colony ship while building the rest of it.

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by NetMageSCW on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:46PM (#45607658)
So everyone that founded the US and especially Hawaii?
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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by rubyfan on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:25PM (#45611887)
>Only a madman would get onto a generation ship on a one-way non-abandonable non-rescuable trip…

This sounds like it ends with a xenomorph bursting out of your chest.

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by hinkley on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:32AM (#45613586)
In Hyperion, people change themselves to fit the surroundings instead of the surroundings to fit them. This makes them Other, and they are the Boogeyman to standard humans.

This may be how it works out in the end. The “Belters” adapt and never set foot on anything with more gravity than a moon ever again.

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