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matthewgdick OP t1_j2nek3n wrote

Reply to comment by cgknight1 in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

Yep, you’re right. The best chance is the ship would need to rely on component extended life by being at low temperatures without much temperature fluctuations and no moisture and no air. In the end, it would be a shot in the dark because no one would be around to know it if worked or not.

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cgknight1 t1_j2nfrev wrote

Because of the hard limit of speed of light - you'd be realistically looking at a couple of thousand years as a minimum. It's unlikely you could make anything last for that period of time.

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Chellaigh t1_j2och4s wrote

Spaceship of Theseus?

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katanakid13 t1_j2pdlg2 wrote

3D print replacement parts as you go until the robot ponders this and has a meltdown.

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Cutecumber_Roll t1_j2okyvx wrote

Time dilation removes the hard limit, but you'd run into soft limits long before you reached relativistic speeds with current tech so that doesn't make much difference.

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