It might not be that hard to convince Evangelicals to build a generational ship - Just call it Eden

[Betonhaus]

I'm thinking that if you want to build a generational project, you need to use religion to build it as a mission for god. Proclaim that it is a mission from God to spread the faith, and break it up into smaller goals that can be achieved with money and support. Have those zerog gravity flights so that people can float like angels, build a space station and call it a temple in the sky. Build a colony on the moon and call it spreading the Word to ALL of the earthz and use its lower gravity to mine for the resources to build O'Niel cylinders that can eventually reach Mars and the other planets, and be grown into a full generational ship powered by a Dyson solar collector that sends it among the stars to find new worlds to terraform

 

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If it's possible to emulate a human mind on a computer and possible to make a self-replicating ecosystem of robots (basically small insect/mouse-sized robots assembling larger ones before they break), then a slow-ass generation ship will always be beaten by centuries and centuries because the self-replicating robots are a tiny-ass payload compared to a ship weighing millions of tons.

But the biggest problem is if the evangelicals can do it, than other people can too, meaning the transhumanist degenerates and AI researchers and shit will follow in their footsteps and ultimately destroy humanity Space colonization almost always means the end of the human race.

On the other hand, I bet their space colonies would be a lot nicer since degeneracy would be kept behind close doors and it would look like a comfy rural American town. It wouldn't be like a transhumanist space colony, where every day is a Pride Parade, naked furries and transspecies people are everywhere, everyone spends all day on UBI doing drugs and having VR sex, and if you criticize it the chip in your brain activates and you get re-educated.

 

[BirdUp]

wormholes are cooler

 

[millais]

You can't trick them that easily. They know that the moment the hatch is sealed, the fedora tippers over at Nasa mission control will lock the controls to autopilot and set a course directly for the heart of the sun.