Journey to Alpha Centauri (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Distance to Alpha Centauri Is a Lot More Than That
Some lifeforms are not going to do well getting frozen or being raised from embryos in some vat or bag without existing parents. They are generally going to be larger ones too who would need more habitat space. As a journey on a tiny spaceship of half a megaton of mass like the original interstellar Orion design is way different than flying on some Mackendry cylinder as large and living area as Eurasia but the technology for sending them is the same. The only difference is one of scale, the difference between pouring a sidewalk from your house to your garage and pouring a multi-lane freeway to the other side of the continent. And the distance to Alpha Centauri is on such an immense scale too
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