Comment on The problem with sleeper ships

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  message of the story was that humans are a valuable resource

  HA! Fiction indeed.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes I’ll be in an office building, or on a job site, or in a hospital room, or even just taking a big shit.

    And I’ll look around and think to myself “Everything here is man made. It all comes from people.” And then I’ll just kinda marvel at the productive and transformative nature of human beings.

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ingenuity

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      • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You missed the point. Underpantsweevil made something new!

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve thought about this too. A few apes, after a long string of evolution, figured out how to bang the right rocks together to make a television…or even a microprocessor. And that’s just one piece of modern tech that some ape figured out, centuries after another ape wrote the complete works it Shakespeare.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They made it make sense in the outer worlds

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• SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It happens in Star Trek. They find a 1980s style businessman on board, who is apopleptic to learn that humanity doesn’t care about investment portfolios anymore.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Neutral Zone (the episode in question) has people that died and then were frozen to try and revive later. The space capsule was in orbit above a planet not en route to another planet. Not exactly the same situation.

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    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, I misremembered then. Still kinda fits tho.

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      • boatsnhos615@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Whut

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  • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least he didn’t have boneitis.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you don’t need money anymore, everything is free and you can do whatever you want.

    "Damn it! How am I going to be better than people then?

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “At least I’m not one of those filthy Klingons!”

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It wasn’t a ship full of people heading to a distant star, that was a bunch of dead people who were frozen at the moment for their death in hopes that sometime in the future a cure for their ailment would be found and then they were set adrift in space.

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    • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That wasn’t even the first time Trek did the “catching up to a sleeper ship” plot. TOS did it earlier, and then they made a movie out of that episode.

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• frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is an aspect of the plot in Alastair Reynold’s novel Chasm City (part of the Revelation Space series) that also has to do with this concept.

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it was the planet called …

    spoiler

    … Sky’s Edge, if I recall correctly. Except the “new tech” was not FTL (not a thing in Revelation Space canon) but the practice of ejecting a significant fraction of colonists and their supplies in order to get a few years “edge” in lead time over other generation ships of a fleet to build up military forces to raid the slower latecomers.

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• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Heinlein wrote one with a similar (though not the same) idea

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• Gert@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Galaxy’s Edge

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