/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8436129
>Shielding just means ya gotta make it bigger with more fuel, and thus bigger still.

The fuel expenditure is EXPONENTIAL. Hence the issue.

>But for a sufficiently advanced civ, better materials, more advanced electronics, and better fuel efficiency negates all that. Particularly so, if they're capable of building embryonic colonizers.

I keep hearing this word "advanced" thrown around with technology like technology is magic and advancement can continue forever. Sorry but newsflash for yah buddy but we are already a few hundred years from total technological stagnation due to reaching the limits of material and computer science. Also more advanced technologies are not fit for long term space travel. Chips built on smaller manufacturing processes are more prone to damage by radiation and more complicated systems have more failure points. Trust me when i say the LAST thing you want to do when making something that needs to function for 200+ years is make it more complicated.