Verily, in article <10qnlr0$1nl10$
1@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
An accident has killed everyone aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. Well, nearly everyone. Three million years later, the last human, Dave
Lister, is released from his stasis booth. Such is the premise of the science-fiction comedy classic, Red Dwarf. But what if it was real?
Would such a gigantic commercial space-ship survive so long in deep
space?
#RedDwarf #sciencefiction #culture #corrosion
https://youtu.be/XiHqiOVpv3Q?si=vfVPMJQfZp0v4ebA
This is a nice channel. I like the low-key reading.
Interesting comment from michaelwilson6358:
Ah, but in the second episode (Future Echoes) we find out that Red
Dwarf has been accelerating continuously since it left Earth and is
about to 'break the light speed barrier'. Clearly the geniuses of the
Space Corps and Jupiter Mining Corporation have discovered many
secrets of physics unknown to us in 2026, but the relevant point is
that Red Dwarf quickly reached relativistic velocities and has pushing towards Tau Zero the whole time. Thus 3 million years is the sidereal
time (at Earth), whereas the onboard (relativistic) time is much
lower. Since the unstable isotopes of Cadmium have a half-life of 13.9
years (Cadmium 113), 461 days (Cadmium 109) and only a few hours
(Cadmium 115 & 107) respectively, it's likely the leak was only a few centuries (Cd 113) or even decades (Cd 109) ago in ship time. This
does beg the question of how the cat evolved, but let's face it -
natural selection was never going to produce something so close to
human. Mutagenic cargo, or an experiment by a bored Holly that he
later forgot about are the only plausible answers.
That answer makes sense on the three million years. I'm not sure it's a
good explanation for the cats, but I guess I can see a bored Holly using
some GELF tech on the only living creature not in cryosleep.
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