Aim Small, Miss Small

Life is hard when you’re unstuck in time

That’s one generation. You’re literally confining future generations to an environment they didn’t choose. I get that that is the nature of life, but we aren’t talking about an exceptionally finite environment. (I get that the earth is finite.) There’s an immeasurable morality gap here that probably exceeds even the tech gap.

This is exactly why I have no interest whatsoever in being in a rocket owned by Elon Musk sent to a planet he wants to colonize. Nope.

Like, who has authority over things like breeding & family patterns. Just because you can technically build a generational ship doesn’t guarantee it will last more than 2-3 generations before descending into outright civil war.

Imagine trying to draft the regulations for conduct on a fucking generational ship. What’s the breeding process? Are we exporting eugenics to outer space? How many kids does each crew member get to have? How many kids do those first kids get to have? Who decides how the education is done for the next generation? Who decides what roles can be created as the culture on the ship evolves? Are we exporting a fucking caste system to space?

I don’t know how I keep winding up in “Generational Ship” conversations on this site, but goddamn the tech is not the only question you people need to be spitballing.

Imagine the morality question of how you commit generations of beings to life in a fucking rocket ship.

That’ll be fun in a few dozen centuries.