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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still a good deal. You don't have to colonize a planet, you're 50 biological years younger than you would have been and you have knowledge of that past that may have been lost. Your immediate family is probably with you, so you just time traveled and brought your loved ones, which is basically unheard of even in fiction. On top of that, you're the kind of person that would jump into the dark to see what was there, so now that there's FTL you can do that on a grander scale. This is a good deal all around.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"So, we’ve read in your file that you know COBOL…"

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago

either revered as a prophet or sent to the COBOL mines as a slave

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depending on the population of the travellers, they're first hand sources of what would be ancient history. There is nothing more valuable. What life was like, what people did, why the decisions were made, what consequences did the creation of such a program have, what was the architecture really like, what was popular media, what was popular comedy. The historic cultural aspects alone would write books.

God Id take a pay cut and change careers to get a chance to interview ancient Egyptians if we had a clear way to communicate.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Change that to ancient Sumerians and I'll join you.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago

Well, now you are off the hook for building a full civilisation in outer space from scratch! Win win!

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

IIRC Elite:Dangerous gad this in game - generational megaships that left earth before FTL travel was invented and they were rediscovered in the 34th century. Among other, more horrifying stories involving slower-than-ftl megaships, complete with mysteries and audio logs. Good stuff.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Looks like somebody messed up the wait calculation

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Your bank account will be huge!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm planning to read this novel some day.

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably “The Songs of Distant Earth“, Arthur c Clarke. Though I don’t recall 3000 being a specific number of years, this happens.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought this was referencing Far Centaurus (which I thought was just all right) and hadn't heard of that one - how is it?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven’t read this one (yet), but Clarke is an incredible writer.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I cheated and read the synopsis and yeah, I think I would like it more. I thought the conflict (stinky boys) was kinda dumb lol

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

You'll know in 3 millennia.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Far Centaurus

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago

Also an episode of Stargate Atlantis

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They're not all my relatives. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’d be okay with this. Maybe we’d actually have flying cars.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago

Or flying buses and trains? c/fuckcars