• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Any generational ship will mutiny within one generation and likely die off by the second

    Interstellar travel is a pipe dream made up by people tired of saving what we already are losing

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        2 hours ago

        We can’t even keep the most prosperous nation on the planet from falling to fascism in 5 years how the FUCk do you think we’re gonna keep an isolated crew of highly intelligent people with access to the highest tech available?

        I know enough about human nature that the only way this works is if it started as a die-hard authoritarian religious movement and even then I only give it 1 out of 4 chances of making it 100 years into the mission