Is There a Starship in Your Future: Part 3 - Future Human Migration

Future Human Migration

Is There a Starship in Your future? This is my third post in this series. You will find the first two posts at dicksederquist.com

A starship traveling at 10 % of light speed would take 100 years for a 10 light year journey. Imagine a high-speed autonomous robotic vehicle visiting a star system 10 light year distant and sending back images and biological data preceding the migration of thousands of humans in self-sustaining starship world arks. Multiple generations of immigrants would live out their lives before arriving at their new home. At 2 % of light speed and a 10 light year distance, it would take 500 years to make the journey or jump between stars. Assuming another 500 years to colonize this new world and prepare for the next jump (a total of 1000 years between each jump) it would take humankind about ten million years to colonize the entire hundred thousand light year diameter Milky Way Galaxy. Ten million years is a drop in the bucket compared to the age of the Universe of fourteen billion years. That scenario would also apply to any alien civilization, who have already come and gone or will visit our solar system in the future. If they have already come and gone, they must have visited in peace and left us alone or left their mark. If you don't believe in UFOs or the new politically correct terminology, UAPs, consider that we humans could become future aliens visiting other civilizations in our galaxy. You will find a discussion on this subject in Chapter 84, Aliens and UAPs, in my fourth memoir, Taking a Walk.

I'll leave you with an image taken by an autonomous high-speed robotic vehicle of a small moon (a staging area) orbiting a viable rocky planet in a nearby star system. This probe was sent out from Earth in the year 2322, three hundred years from now. It took ten years for the electronic images and data to reach Earth. Planet Earth is in tough shape. Mars and the moons of the outer planets have been colonized. Human civilization is looking to the stars for room to grow. Will we visit them in peace?