With today's announcement that an even more Earth-like planet was discovered around the red dwarf star Gliese 581, I started to wonder about how far out we really are from exploring and colonizing other planets, and what would that mean for the travelers' experience. Assumptions for this trip:
1. Two types of travelers or a long, inter-system flight: unaugmented humans (which I refer to as Pures in this blog) and the cyber-humans (those with augmented physical or mental capabilities, to which I refer as Augs).
2. Speed of light travel is not possible.
3. Length of trip is as least 40 Earth years travel time (real years on Earth would be considerably longer due to relativistic travel implications). I started thinking more about what today's technologies would look like in the near future for interstellar travel. Specifically, what would communication technologies look like?
2. Speed of light travel is not possible.
3. Length of trip is as least 40 Earth years travel time (real years on Earth would be considerably longer due to relativistic travel implications). I started thinking more about what today's technologies would look like in the near future for interstellar travel. Specifically, what would communication technologies look like?
What would the following look like? Social Media? Internet? Health Screens? Relationships? Governance both in-flight and post-first contact?
Share your thoughts!
