People born on a spaceship would simply grow up in their own environment and adapt to it the same way we adapt to life on Earth. They have no experience of living on Earth and thus they won’t feel the need to ‘return’ to it. Whether you have a society on Earth or in space it’s the same thing really (for futuristic space stations or w/e)
Unless…
Uh, no. The thing about living in space is that humans weren’t meant to, and it’s extremely difficult. And a spaceship rotating for artificial gravity for thousands of years would have to rotate extremely fast or be extremely large, both are impractical. So they’d have to adapt to low gravity, as well.
But then we’d evolve into fat blobs of meat because of the low gravity like in Wall-E.
“The thing about living in space is that humans weren’t meant to”
As if we were meant to sit behind computers, drive cars, eat processed food / drinks etc.
Even without artificial gravity a human could probably survive just fine in space, they’d need some training to maintain their physical strenght otherwise they’d collapse if they were to return to Earth.
As for life in space being extremely hard, that’s true, but that will change over time. The first space hotels are already on their way. In the future we will probably have large space ships or stations with many people living on them eventually having whole societies in space.
We will be long dead before most of this happens, but it’s logical to think that life in space will be normal in the future.
Good thing evolution takes millions of years, by that time we will probably be able to create humans in any shape or condition we want. Super human terminator anyone?
Why rotating is impractical? Once a ship would get a torque it would keep spinning without any additional energy.
Because like I said, it would have to be an extremely large ship or spin extremely fast to simulate earth’s gravity.
you’re missing the part where this will be forced on unwilling children.
A cylindrical ship with an internal diameter of 6m would have to rotate with frequency of 0.3Hz to simulate Earth’s gravity, this isn’t that much. I bet that gaining it would require much less energy than launching a rocket into space.
Aww bew-hew! The poor helpless children will be forced to survive while all life on Earth burns to ashes! Poor little bastards! :meh:
Someone born in the ruins of a battle-worn country far from the many conveniences of western civilization also doesn’t have a choice. Those children are even more likely to die at a young age than human babies born on a spaceship millions of miles away from war, poverty, anarchy, hunger and disease.
What? Who said anything about the earth burning to ashes? and what do poverty stricken children have to do with anything?
And the point isn’t that they won’t miss earth because they never experienced it, thats like saying its perfectly fine for a child to grow up without 1 parent just because they say that they don’t feel like they missed out on anything.
If a child genuinely feels like it doesn’t miss out on anything, what is the big deal?
And our planet WILL burn to ashes or freeze to death at some point in the near or farther future. Children on colonisation spaceships will survive this catastrophe, while all that stay behind will perish.
If you don’t get the comparison with the child growing up in a warzone, get the fuck out and come back when your brain starts working!
Spaceship = dangerous place to live
Warzone = ?
In fact, planet Earth is a dangerous place to live most of the time. We just happen to live in one of its quieter periods. That’s all gonna be over sooner or later.
yes i know boo hoo starving children baww, but that has literally nothing to do with this.
Yes, but they will look like this:
No, like I said these children are BORN on the spaceship, they have no idea how life on Earth is and thus they don’t feel the need to go back there no matter what. You make it sound as if when you’re born on a spaceship you’re a prisoner bred for one purpose: to complete the mission
What is your mission here on Earth? Go to school, get a job, get married, pay the bills, obey the law and follow fashion? I really don’t see the difference.
We should all just take it easy and do whatever we want, 100 percent of the time.
I do believe that ET exist and that they have been visiting this planet, but I don’t believe in the %99.9 contact/abduction cases, mainly because it involves archaic medical equipment that doesn’t seem to fit in with a highly advanced civilization that at this point must be using femtoengineered drugs and medical utensils
You don’t need high-tech medical equipment to visit a planet, nor do you have to be an advanced civilization.
all it takes is an asteroid full of alien planarians, and you’ve got ETs.
The UN has selected a representative of the planet earth.
Morgan Freemans voice?
It shouldn’t be too hard to convince children, amongst a crew of space pioneers, that exploration is a brave, noble goal that they are destined to pursue.
Kids have been convinced of crazier concepts.