Submitted by camidon on Wed, 05/10/2006 - 10:45am

Why not wait 100 years and halve the travel time?

  • I agree that there needs to be some sort of driving factor...whether a geological/environmental crisis on Earth, the discovery of alien artifacts, or a political/religious movement that the planet won't tolerate, there needs to be a darned good reason for people to agree to a thousand- or more-generation space voyage. --DaveK

If you take a look at our planet now, you'll see how unstable certain parts of the globe have become. Resources are starting to already dwindle, and it certainly appears that the planet is fighting back. So why not go with that idea? The planet has become too unstable and unable to sustain the life on it for any measurable length of time. So fleeing the planet, and heading out into space would be a logical approach.

GenerationE