23
03
2008
Nanotech, Between the Stars
Posted by: Luke in futurism, tags: civilization, colony ship, consciousness, constraints, dna, glial cells, light travel, light years, lightspeed, milligrams, nutrients, one thing, period of time, reaching the stars, science fiction movies, scientists, storage medium, time dilation, utility fog, velocityMoving through space at high enough velocity to reach the stars within a reasonable period of time may turn out to be rather difficult. Some scientists think faster than light travel is impossible, or at least highly impractical. So reaching the stars would tend to involve a lot of time dilation whenever it occurs.
The other problem is the huge amount of energy involved in transporting a human colony ship — way more than we ever want to spend. But nanotech provides a solution to both of these.
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