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Mash_man710 t1_j233sjp wrote

The part I don't understand about generational ships is why the first crew would volunteer. You're locked in a ship until you die and your great grandchildren might get somewhere?

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bigmikemcbeth756 OP t1_j234ggq wrote

That's gonna be for the top people you're gonna have bottom people too basically it would be like What was that movie when I never stopped snowing and they were on the train

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RRumpleTeazzer t1_j23600o wrote

Evolutionary wise this would be jackpot, your genes will not only survive, but found a whole civilization (at least during the journey).

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SuperRette t1_j239sho wrote

Except "because evolution" isn't the reason why people do things. Our genes actually don't care about civilization, either. They're molecular chains that don't care about anything. It's only happenstance that they happened to replicate.

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RRumpleTeazzer t1_j23ntlq wrote

Well yes, genes don’t want to do anything. But with self-replication available, the game you can play is sustained self-replication.

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Techutante t1_j2367lf wrote

It's usually in a scenario where you're escaping a civilization with zero opportunity for status growth. Your DNA has been found to be acceptable and you are blended into the future. Out of 1000 or 5000 people, your kids will be a Genghis Khan level of influence on a new planet. Maybe.

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bigmikemcbeth756 OP t1_j234dww wrote

What do you mean by promising careers? This is the 1st ship my ideal would Be you take orphans or other people and you take them like a military school and you raise them up All they'll know is the mission. But that would be my last resort

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