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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (15 children)

If you have working FTL now, though, and can get there faster why not also intercept the sleeper ships and bring them with you?

[–] trampel@feddit.org 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

A sleeper ship isn't going to be doing any maneuvers other than constantly accelerating before the halfway point and then constantly decelerating after the halfway point. Predicting the position of the ship at any given moment based on that is a textbook physics 101 problem that students are expected to be able to solve by hand. If you've got FTL cracked then you've got the computational power to account for any real world variables that would throw off such a prediction.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe they are like people today (or Ferengis in Star Trek) and just don't care, not seeing any profit in the endeavor.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is absolutely no way we survive if we continue like we are right now.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Surviving isn't profitable, SMH my head.

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