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Well I need to step in on this. It isn't like oh hey multi-generational... it is more complicated.

People born without the effects of gravity will not develop the same. No form of alternative medicine will fix that.

Traveling through space means that piece of society needs to be consistent with maintenance and non stop. Humans are disorganized and function independently. Small groups function together. Humans are messy and keeping that space clean will be nearly impossible.

You would need a way to grow food and handle waste. Not even the best submarines have figured this out. Even with the ISS we have to send food up and take trash back.

We are not net zero enough to even make such a project possible.




ISS can just jettison trash.


Okay so where do you get the material to make more trash that would last a few hundred years it would take several generations and hopefully noone experience health problems to achieve this goal.


I’m not disagreeing about the feasibility of space travel with current tech.

I’m just pointing out that you seem to have just made up this idea that we shuttle trash from the ISS back to Earth and that’s wrong.




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