Memes

8516 readers

778 users here now

Post memes here.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

Wait at least 2 months before reposting
No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), [email protected] can be better place for that
Use NSFW marking accordingly

Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. [email protected]
Merkitse K18-sisältö tarpeen mukaan

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1236

The problem with sleeper ships (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

166 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] voracitude 109 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

In practice, though, the actual sleepers would be so happy to arrive to find a nice McDonalds and a charming small town instead of shuttling down into the middle of uninhabited Arrakis with a 3D printer and a prayer.

As a guy who sometimes gets told "Hey, don't worry about that work you had to do, you can skip it", hard agree. No better feeling in the world. And after thinking you'd have to build a whole civilisation from scratch? Yeah, nah, sign me up for the ~~generation~~ sleeper ship please.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

A generation ship and a sleeper ship are two different things (that we can't yet do). In one, you live on a ship so your kids can go to a new place. In the other, you don't really live on a ship so you can go to a new place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Imagine if a lost Spanish armada finally arrived at Florida, centuries late, musket-wielding conquistadors raiding a coastal naval academy while a prominent political VIP was giving a speech, taking them hostage like Hernán Cortés did with Moctezuma II (Aztec Empire) or Francisco Pizarro with Atahualpa (Inca Empire).