Our Generation Ships Will Sink
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Just some criticisms, the author doesn't seem to understand the idea of sending probes to survey a destination before loading up a huge generational ship. Instead, the author seems to think humans would just load up, travel for 200 years, and arrive at some unknown destination and hope that there's a habitable planet. This is nonsense. Could you imagine spending 200 years on a ship hoping that your destination is even hospitable to life?
In any case, some very good points are made about the challenges. Personally, I don't think we're going to be going to other stars as humans, in our human bodies. If we could someday build AI, and machines with brains that think like humans -- those could voyage across the galaxy.