/sci/ - Science & Math

Ha, one in ten odds you're supposedly paternal father isn't. In some areas, approximately one in three odds.

Something tells me that /sci/ has avoided doing such research.

>>2011952
Incidentally, OP. The greatest constraint for space travel isn't actually propulsion. The greatest constraint is the human body itself.

It's infeasible to shield the human body adequately from cosmic radiation, house the life-support for travel to even the closest stellar bodies, and constrain acceleration to a viable threshold for human survival. Even with things like cryotech, liquid inertial holding environments, advanced shielding and materials, and self-sustaining life support. The physical cost to mass and fuel for thrust puts it beyond feasibility even in principle or theory.

Many people talk about the vast distances and long time spans of travel and fail to realize the health costs on the crew over those distances and times. We can't build the ship to adequately protect the person. It's a packaging problem with no solution. A no-go theorem. The only recourse, without teleportation or wormhole techs, is to redesign the crew. Which means either completely robotic crew. They would be limited in utility. Or we cybernetically, technologically, and genetically alter and/or integrate human beings for space-faring. Part of the ship, part of the crew.

The alterations to the human body would render a person unrecognizable as human. They might retain their genetic code. They would not retain their bones, flesh, muscles, or much else. I'm not talking about brain in a jar. I'm talking total metamorphosis into technological life.

>>1890988

Nope.avi