![]() ![]() Oh yeah, we could totally do that, I never really meant to imply otherwise, I just think trips to and fro would be too unpleasant to be done any more than at extremely rare instances.Īnd while we could do that, I'm just unsure of the human mind's ability to sit in extended periods of time in generational ships. But hey, at least we still have the Solar System! It'd be nice if warp drives are possible, but as of now, it's up in the air at best. The warp drive and it's equivalents are typically used in order to create a somewhat normal flowing story for sci-fi, because like with Gunbuster, the implication of even slower-than-light travel at 99.9% light-speed is kind of depressing. But that also doesn't include other consequences that would factor into using such a drive that we don't even know of yet. But at least in that case the issues of long trips with slower-than-light travel is mitigated. ![]() Even with a Warp Drive that could go 200% light speed, you'd still be getting 5-17 year round trips from Earth and one of the 50 or so nearest stars. It also doesn't mean that interstellar travel would be comfortable in any way. It's possible something like the Alcubierre Drive could be possible, but it's simply too unfeasible to test accurately with the tech we have now. Hey, that's just the way physics works, at least in terms of how we know them now. The creators or at least the artists obviously had a big hard SF streak in them. ![]() I can't speak to the effect of the lasers themselves. Gunbuster also had a very realistic (physical) depiction of what a laser weapon looks like. But on each mission, more and more of these people die, until there is almost nobody left. The protagonist is deployed to combat a distant alien enemy, and after each mission he returns home from increasingly far away, and a correspondingly increasing amount of time has passed, to the point where not only is everybody he knows dead, but the society he returns to is so unrecognizable that he reenlists to serve alongside fellow combat veterans because he believes they are the only people who could ever understand or relate to him. The classic SciFi story The Forever War uses extreme time dilation as a metaphor for the alienation and disconnection between combat veterans of the Vietnam war and the society they returned to. That's what interstellar space travel would be for a human being thanks to slower-than-light travel. And continue to repeat that for as many times as you want, give or take 15-500 years. Imagine going from the year 1500, and then waking up the next day and finding yourself in the year 2000. Time dilation for one return trip, let alone going to multiple stars in one's lifetime would make said starship's passengers permanent strangers in alien lands. If the human race as is is going to be traveling to other stars, it's only going to be for one-way colonization trips. If warp or it's equivalent is possible, but there's nothing that shows that to be possible physically, at least not yet. Homo sapiens is too fragile for such extended trips into places so hostile and unforgiving, only to find when you return home that it isn't home anymore and never will be. It will be something that can comprehend and be able to deal the hardships of interstellar space. Whatever goes out into the stars will be very similar to us, but it won't be what the human race is currently. Traversing the Solar System yes, but I don't think the human race is fit for the stresses and sacrifices for space travel, in either body or mind. I'm of the opinion that once we start traveling the stars, it will not be the human race that will be doing it. Its gonna be some weird growing pains when humanity can actually viably space travel as theres so many variables to consider then just getting somewhere decently fast. She graduates highschool alone with her partner while everyone else grew up and on their own, she wasent able to be in her school photos either, after a timeskip the main character decided to stay "in the middle of the galaxy" on a space station with her partner deciding to stay on earth for 15 years, her partner comes back but its been only 6 months for the main character.Īnd this is when they really play it up that so much time can be lost with so little actual time because of how time works across space. I just finished gunbuster today and currently started diebuster but one thing that was prominent was time dilution and how it effected earth time, the ships, enemies, and even the mechs were going almost lightspeed almost all the time, to the point that months and even years passed because of it even though its been only minutes, when they finally go back to earth, 10 years has passed and the main character's best friend is older and has a child with the main character technically being 27 but looking the same. ![]()
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