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Old September 16th, 2020 #1
Nikola Bijeliti
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Default Proxima Centauri Colonizing Mission

Here's an interesting video I found about a plan for a mission to colonize the Alpha Centauri system:


It would be about a 400 year trip one way. The technical aspects are interesting, but the video mentions nothing of the human aspect. How are multiple generations of humans going to keep themselves busy and not go insane being trapped inside a spacecraft for that long? Or will the inhabitants be frozen and thawed out when they get there?

At the end of the video it shows the crew returning to earth after founding the colony, while the colonists remain. That is totally insane. Assuming that the crew is frozen during both journeys, it would be 800 years later when they returned to earth. Earth wouldn't even be recognizable to them by then. Could you imagine people from 1200 being thawed out and brought back to life today? They would not find the earth today a hospitable place to live.
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