I am talking about gadgets we see in science fiction movies that obey the laws of physics of our universe and could theoretically be constructed, barring the limitations of materials, energy and time faced by our civilization at the moment.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Generation ships. In practice they are outside our capabilities at the moment, but it’s mostly existing engineering … if you could scale up to that, and keep it functional long enough, and keep people healthy long enough, and plan for all eventualities

    • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      No. Not yet. You need a functional ecosystem to support hundreds or more humans in an enclosed space. We can barely do it here in open air towns.