Spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri

6 Brajeshwar 4 8/9/2025, 4:06:40 PM livescience.com ↗

Comments (4)

gus_massa · 2d ago

Big discussion from another source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817539 (359 points | 3 days ago | 318 comments)

more_corn · 3d ago

Potentially habitable. You’d also be severing your descendants from the one place in the universe known to be perfectly compatible with human biology. (Because we co-evolved with the biosphere here) Its wildly unethical to sign your descendants up for something like that.

sema4hacker · 3d ago

>includes libraries...

What are "libraries"?

bshacklett · 3d ago

Bundles of reusable code for commonly performed operations that lead to dependency hell and supply chain attacks.