/sci/ - Science & Math

As he turned from the window, something caught his eye: the readout on the nearest biostasis cell. Trembling with unease as much as cold, Gillis moved closer to examine it. The screen identified the sleeper within as Cortez, Raymond B.–Ray Cortez, the life-support chief–and all his life-signs seemed normal as far as he could tell, yet that wasn’t what attracted his attention. On the upper left side was a time-code:

E/: 7.8.70 / 22:10:01 GMT

July 8, 2070. That was the date everyone had entered hibernation, three days after the Alabama had made its unscheduled departure from Highgate. On the upper right side of the screen, though, was another time-code:

P/: 10.3.70 / 00.21.23 GMT

October 3, 2070. Today’s date and time.

The Alabama had been in flight for only three months. Three months of a voyage across forty-six light-years which, at 20 percent of light-speed, would take more 230 years to complete.

For several long minutes, Gillis stared at the readout, unwilling to believe the evidence of his own eyes. Then he turned and walked across the compartment to the manhole. His bare feet slapping against the cool metal rungs, he climbed down the ladder to the next deck of the hibernation module.

>>1698905

>Singularity

I will tell you what I told /tv/ seconds ago:

>Yes because sheer processing power = GLORIOUS DYSON SPHERES AND FTL TRAVEL

>Ray Kurzweil, how much I wish I could believe you. But I can't, so it's time to go back to fantasizing about atomically-precise Drexlerian molecular assemblers, Bussard ramjets, arcologies, colonies throughout the solar system, genetically-engineered super-furry part-human part-leopard waifus, and all that.

Fusion and AI have been fifteen years away for fifty years, why should I believe any different? Because in twenty years we will have enough transistors in the same room?

Get ready.