{"id":88171,"date":"2019-02-25T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/dr-marins-work-on-generation-ships-updated"},"modified":"2019-02-25T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:42:18","slug":"dr-marins-work-on-generation-ships-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/dr-marins-work-on-generation-ships-updated","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Marin\u2019s Work on Generation Ships \u2013 Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dr-marins-work-on-generation-ships-updated.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marin and his group are creating some great simulations involving generation ships. I\u2019ve been following the work for a while and you can learn more about the three major papers they\u2019ve produced. The first paper uses a Monte-Carlo simulation to measure viability. The second paper uses the HERITAGE program developed for the first paper to calculate the minimum crew for a generation ship. The third paper uses the same program to calculate food production for three different methods of agriculture.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Marin at the Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg is doing some great research on the feasibility of Generation Ships. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generation_ship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">generation ship<\/a> is \u201ca hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels at sub-light speed.\u201d He and his team have created a wide variety of research papers and projects, which includes developing their own Monte Carlo calculation program.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cayceedee.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/26\/dr-marins-work-on-generation-ships-updated\/\">https:\/\/cayceedee.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/26\/dr-marins-work-on...s-updated\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marin and his group are creating some great simulations involving generation ships. I\u2019ve been following the work for a while and you can learn more about the three major papers they\u2019ve produced. The first paper uses a Monte-Carlo simulation to measure viability. The second paper uses the HERITAGE program developed for the first paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88171","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}