Well at least you didn’t have to spend the rest of your life building civilisation from scratch.
Yeah but it’s all strip malls and Arby’s.
Is HFY a community over here yet?
At least you aren’t a soldier ready to restart a war that’s been settled
Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.
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The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.
The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.
The ant powered consciousness was pretty cool 😁
Cryosleep in earth would be pretty baller. Imagine all the people who’d sign up to just skip ahead 50 years.
So you’re telling me, someone else did all the work already, I don’t have to lift a finger? Awesome.
Or you wake up and there’s nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn’t reached earth yet.
that’s why we should only go when it’s possible to travel near lightspeed, can’t beat that
The Ark, tv series.
Is it good? I’m looking for a new series to watch
I caught a few early episodes on Syfy channel and they didn’t impress me much. After a few days I saw a few more random episodes and started to care and get attached to the story and characters.
I’ve watched what I think is everything that is out now, 2 seasons I guess. I’m liking it a lot more than I would expect. High potential for it to keep being good. But yeah, the starting episodes are a little slow.
Very very very good
Curious that the star is called Barnard because that’s the name of the doctor that first performed a successful heart transplant.
Jerks didn’t come pick me up on way there? Wtf dudes.
Ikr? Rude.
That’s on you bruh. You shouldn’t have placed that bumper sticker that said, “if this spacecrafts a rockin, don’t come a knockin”.
That was the generational spaceship lagging behind you on their 30rd generation, now mutants
Omfg ugh why did i do that!
Babylon 5 had an episode on this. A sleeper ship was launched and a few years later we got jump gate tech from an alien race.
The first crew would face the most difficult challenges. Imagine the relief after expecting to establish the fundamentals of civilization, and instead are just assigned your living quarters.
I would definitely prefer to be a leader of new world than just be sent to my room.
I guess. I’m more of a space socialist, myself. Silly me always assumed that equality and collaboration would be a precursor to colonization of other worlds. Musk is trying so hard to prove me wrong. Lol
What if you set out with the idea of starting socialist utopia on a new planet and get there to find booming corporate dystopia?
Put me back to sleep and wake me for the revolution.
Let’s burn this bitch down and start over with the common man in mind, and the needs of everyone met.
Or let’s go find a new planet. With blackjack, and hookers.
I don’t know how you can look around at the world and think that will ever be a thing.
Space is big. You can always go out and find a different place.
That’s the plot of a nice obscure theatre piece I know, but they don’t travel that far, are awake, and see the other ships pass. It’s awsome and fun for the audience and super frustrating for the characters.
This is a take I never saw before on this matter. Is there a source?
It’s never been officially published and it’s not in English - it trully is obscure. It was played several times though with enough success and I do have the whole thing on my computer somewhere, probably (or at least I know who to ask for it). I’m not sure it’s worth reading in automatic translation, but if you’re interested, I could send it to you.
I read an interesting book based on this premise called The Forever War, it’s been awhile but it was pretty good!
Similar premise but with soldiers sent to fight a war and eventually finding it already over.
I remember one where a sect of humanity was being persecuted, and left to try to find a better life in the stars. They failed to find a life, gave up and returned home, but their interstellar trip consumed so many Earth years that by the time they returned, Earth had moved on from persecution and eagerly welcomed their historical memories.
Sadly, I forget the name; it may have been a short story.
This sounds like Methuselah’s Children
I do this with bill collectors.
You might also enjoy The Shoulders of Giants.
That was good, thank you!
Thanks for reminding me of this one. It was a really good read.
“fuck you, Sir!”
