Clarification: I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about biological exposition.

  • yobasari@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    You don’t need FTL travel or multi-generational ships really. If you get close enough to the speed of light, time dilation can make the travel time for the people on the ship be as short as you want. Only for the people that stay on earth would the spaceship appear to take generations. Getting enough energy to reach such high speeds would be the difficult part as well as accelerating quickly without crushing the travellers.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      And presumably not vapourising from collisions with random particles in space while travelling at a significant fractions of C.