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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Here is my thing.
Imagine that humans have developed an engine that can proplel a spacecraft fast enough to reach, let's say half the speed of light.
Imagine that this spacecraft is loaded up with humans and these humans take off for a star 100 light years away. (it would take them 200 years to get there).
Before leaving, they send my proposed microbial seeding spacecraft to venus, mars, mercury, titan, io,and any other place in the solar system that we can find compatible microbial life on earth to suit it's environments.
The super fast human will take 100 years to get to their destination, traveling at a speed which is relativistic and warps spacetime. They stay for 100 years and then travel back to Earth at the same speed.
In their experience, only 500 years would have gone by, but they spent 400 of those years traveling at relativistic speeds. On earth and in the solar system, time progressed much more rapidly (I d not know the exact calculations but let us imagin ethat a million years have gone by)
In that time, the whole of humanity or even life on earth may be gone.
Can you imagine that in those intervening million years some of that microbial seeding would have not only survived but flourished and by doing so altered the planets/moons/asteroids where we have seeded them?
Mars could be covered by continent sized mats of microbial life that eat iron oxide and shit out oxygen, allowing for a slow oxygenization of that planet, or venus could be an ocean of microbes converting the methane into hydrogen and carbon. who knows?
These humans could check shit out, then head right back to their original destination, coming back every 500 years to them, but every milion or so years to our solar system.
it could be done.
and it would rock.
sweet ass comic book based on this will be forthcoming from the rob instigator
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no disrespect Rob, but Earth has enough problems to deal with as it is with out dreams of terraforming and intergallactic space travel to waste even more unimaginable sums of money on.. as it is NASA spends over $1 BILLION on a program to attempt to terraform mars while we let the earth fall to shit...
"rally sight of Mars ship in darkness, cite them truth, right in front of them kids, but you're bound to see a world full of misfortune and dread.." (ie, even if the teraform mars, we will just relocate all the human problems on earth to mars)