{"id":85318,"date":"2018-11-30T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/we-could-move-to-another-planet-with-a-spaceship-like-this"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:43:41","slug":"we-could-move-to-another-planet-with-a-spaceship-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/we-could-move-to-another-planet-with-a-spaceship-like-this","title":{"rendered":"We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-could-move-to-another-planet-with-a-spaceship-like-this.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet, is almost 25 trillion miles away. Even one of our fastest spaceships\u2014the 31,600-mile-per-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/pluto\">New Horizons<\/a>\u2014would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there. Assuming we can\u2019t figure out how to warp space-time (seems unlikely, but fingers crossed), we\u2019re still looking at a couple-hundred-year trip in the best-case scenario, which leads to the real problem: No human crew could survive the entire ride. Science-fiction writers have long floated so-called generation ships as a solution. Designers would outfit these interplanetary cruise vessels to support a community of adults and their children, and their children\u2019s children, and their children\u2019s children\u2019s children\u2026until humanity finally reaches a new celestial shore. Here\u2019s our best guess for what it would take to sow the seeds of an extrasolar species.<\/p>\n<p><b>Career planning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Successive generations need to fill all the vital crew roles\u2014such as medics and mechanics\u2014which doesn\u2019t leave much room for freedom of choice. A version of modern career tests would assign occupations based on aptitude, passions, and available jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/realistic-generational-spaceship?bqCve0tJ8EuEDE6h.01\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/realistic-generational-spaceship?bqCve0tJ8EuEDE6h.01<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet, is almost 25 trillion miles away. Even one of our fastest spaceships\u2014the 31,600-mile-per-hour New Horizons\u2014would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there. Assuming we can\u2019t figure out how to warp space-time (seems unlikely, but fingers crossed), we\u2019re still looking at a couple-hundred-year trip in the best-case scenario, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}