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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nm0i@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
There was a sci-novel about that, I don’t remember who wrote it. Essentially, after FTL got invented they caught up with generation ships and retro-fitted them with FTL drives; overall message of the story was that humans are a valuable resource and they should not be discarded lightly, especially in a mission to seed the galaxy.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 4 months ago
teft@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
At least he didn’t have boneitis.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months 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?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“At least I’m not one of those filthy Klingons!”
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
harmsy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 months 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.
Gert@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Galaxy’s Edge
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
HA! Fiction indeed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 4 months ago
ingenuity
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
You missed the point. Underpantsweevil made something new!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months 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.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 months ago
They made it make sense in the outer worlds