Space Life is a science fiction webcomic set in an indefinite future on a small spaceship traveling the cosmos. On board the spaceship we find Tom, an astronaut we always see with a suit and helmet and AL, the voice of an artificial intelligence. Welcome to spaceship Beagle 5. Sit back and enjoy following Tom and AL on an extravagant adventure among the stars. Try to find countless references to famous and little-known jewels from sc-ifi, nerd and pop culture.
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Artificial intelligence, virtual reality visors...when will intergalactic travel take place?

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The Beagle 5 spaceship takes its name from the HMS Beagle ship. The HMS Beagle on her second voyage hosted the then young naturalist Charl...
The most famous generation ship in fiction would no doubt be the SOL. Originally meant to be a war ship of the Solar Empire shortly before its collaps in the year 3540, it almost immediately became a generation ship on the way from the Maelstrom beyond the Hickson Compact Group 44 back to the Milky Way galaxy, which it reached in the year 3581 (and again in 4012, 4877, and 4912). It visited many planets around many stars in many galaxies before it became lost in the Tare-Scharm galaxy, 45 million light years from the Milky Way galaxy, in the year 5056.
ReplyDeleteThe choice not to have offspring living in space is an anti-natalistic one. This fits, because DeepMind's first chatbot, a neural network AI trained on movie scripts, was an anti-natalist.
Thanks Def, I did not know this ship. Perhaps you might like a manga that talks about these topics, among many others. It's called 2001 Nights by Yukinobu Hoshino. It is a collection of many stories. In one of these, a generational ship leaves for a new world. Meanwhile, a new technology is discovered on earth that allows travel at the speed of light. So a new ship leaves, arrives before the generational ship and builds houses and all that is needed and leaves a nice welcome sign! This also makes you think ....😉
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