Nyrath
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🕑 Added 2019-02-09 00:53:13 +0000 UTCREALISTIC DESIGNS R-Z
added new section Space Rescue Vehicle EOS/MCCM
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns4.php#srveosccm
SLOWER-THAN-LIGHT STARSHIPS
added to Generation Ships quotes THE IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS OF GENERATION SHIPS, THE INTERSTELLAR DREAM IS DYING, and GREGORY BENFORD'S CRITIQUE OF ROBINSON'S AURORA
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#hardgen
QUASI-MILITARY
added to Orbit Guard a quote SPACE RESCUE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/civmilitary.php#spacerescue
added a new section Breeches Buoy
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/civmilitary.php#breechesbuoy
MAN AMPLIFIERS AND ROBOTS
added to Fractal Robots quote from BUSH ROBOTS and THE CHRISTMAS BUSH
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/manamplifier.php#bushrobots
EMERGENCY DECK
expanded the definitions of Escape Craft
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/emergency.php#escapecraft
FASTER THAN LIGHT
added to Receiver Required Matter Transmitter a quote from BEHOLD THE STARS
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php#transmatrec3
FABULOUS LOCATIONS
added to Thundering Worlds a quote HOW TO MOVE THE EARTH
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/location.php#fathersin
SPACESUITS
added to Safety Line a quote from THE ROLLING STONES
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#linegun1
Comments
Nyrath
Indeed so. It is important to test these technologies in a location where the test subjects can be evacuated if things go terribly wrong
Michael Hutson
Re. ultra-pessimism about generation ships: surely long, long before anyone considers trying to boost a habitat on an interstellar course, this will have been preceded by decades or centuries of experience in maintaining space habitats in the Solar system. Either the bugs will have been worked out or else everyone will know better. In fact a sort of precursor to interstellar colonization may have occurred when people seeking independence/isolation will have made the journey out to the Kuiper belt to build habitats from the available rocks and ice. Depending on the propulsion technology available, these journeys might take 1-3 decades. IOW, I see a lot of "baby steps" being available to test the viability of longer journeys.
