hard to call it ‘original’, like, since 1918, or at least 1934. Generation ship variations done.so.many.times.
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Van Maanen’s Star was first found in 1917, by Adriaan Van Maanen, the same year as these measurements, and decidedly close at 14 light years. The companion should be called Adam’s World.
We can’t get back all the transmissions that have been sent, some race with crazy tech could easily find us just based on that.
unlikely that Alpha Centauri ... is home to a spacefaring civilization
ftfy: HAVE A BISCUIT PENGUIN ON THE TELLIE
Congratulations on discovering what kids have been able to reverse engineer on their own since July 13, 1960.
it’s important because they can throw more into orbit and still recover the booster by not having to go back 100-200 miles to land. Moar profit. Conversely, if they always have to return to land, it limits the payload to higher orbits and they lose business. Less profit. Savvy?
Sounds like an arcology without the ‘-ology’ part.
If Paulo Soleri had billion$ at his disposal imagine what might be out in that desert instead of that little bed and breakfast facility.
I want the 2001: a space odyssey version ...hissing air, florescent tube hum, teletype ticks and the ever present soft rolling of a ten ton centrifuge turning on it’s axis.
We may yet get a Skylon or similar.
Space archaeologists:
There are people who just sit around watching planets for hours on end.
...reproduction - a delayed return environment that’s existed since the dawn of life...