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Interstellar Colonization Strategies (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Methuselah Ship - A Brief History

A colony founded under an alien sky a hundred light-years from a very different world is already going to be massively divergent before they ever interact with each other or their homeworld. Crew member X has a different boss on one voyage, Mary's a different lass on another,. They may live on the ship or be stored digitally or hybrid where they live in virtual reality till they arrive and are loaded onto clones, androids, or some equivalent. They may have arrived frozen directly from Earth of course, and we would call those sleeper ships which also includes any version of stasis or hibernation.

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