Sentence examples for generation ship from inspiring English sources

For human transport the only credible way is a generation ship or a World Ship, carrying tens to hundreds of people who will arrive at the destination and attempt to colonise one of the planets.

The story was entitled "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and was about the Enterprise coming across a generation ship which had descended into a two-tier class system.

Aurora digs into many of the social and psychological issues of generation ships, but ultimately Robinson is an optimist; a believer in the powers of the rational, scientific mind to overcome all challenges.

New generation ships will be able to handle beyond two meters.

Future generation ships are expected to have a higher power density and may require specialized models to include the thermal system and higher-frequency analysis.

Power generation ships and barges can sail or be towed wherever they are needed, and simply dock in a local port.

Whatever the technology used - Generation Ships, warp drive or hyperspace I would say it's an inevitablity with a probablity approaching 1 that human kind will attempt to colonize space beyond this solar system.

We could be building generation ships to reach the newly discovered habitable planet Wolf 1061c.

Generation ships would be designed to nourish living human colonies for centuries, or even millennia, once they are in transit from Earth to another star system.

So besides the fully justified calls for an immediate robotic probe mission, cue the "solutions" of FTL, warp drive and uploading in addition to those within the realm of the possible (nuclear fusion, light sails, long generation ships... I'm even willing to put Bussard ramjets in this bin).

The characters occasionally refer to "Earth-that-was", and the film establishes that, long before the events in the series, a large population had emigrated from Earth to a new star system in generation ships: "Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many".