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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Still a good deal. You don't have to colonize a planet, you're 50 biological years younger than you would have been and you have knowledge of that past that may have been lost. Your immediate family is probably with you, so you just time traveled and brought your loved ones, which is basically unheard of even in fiction. On top of that, you're the kind of person that would jump into the dark to see what was there, so now that there's FTL you can do that on a grander scale. This is a good deal all around.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"So, we’ve read in your file that you know COBOL…"

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

either revered as a prophet or sent to the COBOL mines as a slave

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depending on the population of the travellers, they're first hand sources of what would be ancient history. There is nothing more valuable. What life was like, what people did, why the decisions were made, what consequences did the creation of such a program have, what was the architecture really like, what was popular media, what was popular comedy. The historic cultural aspects alone would write books.

God Id take a pay cut and change careers to get a chance to interview ancient Egyptians if we had a clear way to communicate.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Change that to ancient Sumerians and I'll join you.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago

Well, now you are off the hook for building a full civilisation in outer space from scratch! Win win!

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

IIRC Elite:Dangerous gad this in game - generational megaships that left earth before FTL travel was invented and they were rediscovered in the 34th century. Among other, more horrifying stories involving slower-than-ftl megaships, complete with mysteries and audio logs. Good stuff.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Your bank account will be huge!

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Looks like somebody messed up the wait calculation

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm planning to read this novel some day.

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably “The Songs of Distant Earth“, Arthur c Clarke. Though I don’t recall 3000 being a specific number of years, this happens.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was referencing Far Centaurus (which I thought was just all right) and hadn't heard of that one - how is it?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t read this one (yet), but Clarke is an incredible writer.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I cheated and read the synopsis and yeah, I think I would like it more. I thought the conflict (stinky boys) was kinda dumb lol

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

You'll know in 3 millennia.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Far Centaurus

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Also an episode of Stargate Atlantis

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d be okay with this. Maybe we’d actually have flying cars.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 months ago

Or flying buses and trains? c/fuckcars

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They're not all my relatives. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)