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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7561081" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>I agree that having to live in a highly constrained society would likely cause all sorts of problems. I don’t know if they are unsurmountable. People are adaptable and resilient. I worry more about long term stability. Gradual drifts into failure modes.</p><p></p><p>Also, I agree that social management by misinformation is, at the least, very risky. But, a lot of stories put this in as a feature.</p><p></p><p>To address another point, eugenics might not be necessary. Everyone could be born from stored, frozen embryos. (But how long can those be stored? Maybe that wouldn’t work.). Doing so would help stabilize the population to “known stable” genotypes. There would be much selection going into the choice of the folks on the ship, and in any frozen assets.</p><p></p><p>With today’s technology the ship would be stuck with the machinery and computer resources that it started with. We can 3D print some stuff, but rebuilding a large proportion of the ship seems unlikely. What might work would be to a whole lot of backups in deep freeze.</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 7561081, member: 13107"] I agree that having to live in a highly constrained society would likely cause all sorts of problems. I don’t know if they are unsurmountable. People are adaptable and resilient. I worry more about long term stability. Gradual drifts into failure modes. Also, I agree that social management by misinformation is, at the least, very risky. But, a lot of stories put this in as a feature. To address another point, eugenics might not be necessary. Everyone could be born from stored, frozen embryos. (But how long can those be stored? Maybe that wouldn’t work.). Doing so would help stabilize the population to “known stable” genotypes. There would be much selection going into the choice of the folks on the ship, and in any frozen assets. With today’s technology the ship would be stuck with the machinery and computer resources that it started with. We can 3D print some stuff, but rebuilding a large proportion of the ship seems unlikely. What might work would be to a whole lot of backups in deep freeze. Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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