Poll: Congratulations! You’ve been selected to crew humanity’s first starship that will travel to Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, the limits of physics mean you will work on the ship until you die in transit over a hundred thousand years before it arrives. Would you still go?
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17.8% -
Yes!
202
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44.4% -
Maybe. Are we sure there’s no hyper sleep? Do I get to produce descendants that might make it? These questions need answering.
503
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15.7% -
I look forward to reading about it, but I’ll stick around Earth.
178
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22.1% -
No way. I don’t want to live out my days in a tiny metal tube in the pitch black of space.
251
1134 votes
Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
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