The Ark, tv series.
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Surely if you’re sending someone on a 3000 year journey, you’ve prepared for the possibility of making a faster ship in the time between them leaving and arriving at their destination!?
People intrinsically know their some of their loved ones are going to die before them, that doesn't mean they won't cry when it happens.
Do I dream on the trip? Do I remember any of the dreams? Thatd be pretty cool.
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I'm psyched. Less work for me!
Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.
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The project founder accidentally died, the computer AI fails to keep them alive and the spiders start to think the satellite is a god. Then they enslave the native ants.
The big problem is no one remembered to tell the humans on Earth about the experiment. Or the humans on the generation ship that knew died centuries ago.
EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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But at least your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine 👉😏👉
"what are you doing multigenerational step bro?"
I think either Asimov or A.E. van Vogt wrote a short story with this premise already back in the late 1940s.
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that's why we should only go when it's possible to travel near lightspeed, can't beat that
This is the plot of a short story, Far Centaurus, that I read a long time ago.
“Hard” Sci-Fi stories making a big deal about faster than light not being possible but then treating pods that magically freeze and revive a human body for years as such a triviality that we invented them by 2004 or something in the timeline.
You make it to earth and you forgot the historical reason why you avoid earth. It is a prison planet
one of the, like 3, interesting quests in Starfield was based on that!
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If they had faster ship technology, surely they’d be able to locate the older ships in transit and relieve the astronauts of their duty.
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Or you wake up and there's nothing there because that star died a thousand years ago and the light from the supernova hasn't reached earth yet.
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Back to the future that is less distant than the future you wanted to go. A Hollywood classic.