Evolution could be cool, and probably inevitable, but once you got to your destination, you'd have animals well-adapted to life on a ship (or no animals left at all). The first year on the planet would make an awesome story, though. Sort of Dr. Doolittle meets Earth2.
Alicia On May 7, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Donald McCarthy wrote: > I would suggest embryos would be a more viable options. A LOT more of them > could be kept alive in some kind of stasis (Step back I'm going to SCIENCE!) > and they would tax life support less. If you're going for a generation ship > then a viable breeding population would probably be best. I envision such a > ship as so large it would contain it's own stable ecosystem with natural > selection driven evolution going on. Make of that process what you will. > > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > The New York Times invited readers to write them a paragraph about whether > eating meat was ethical. Interestingly, an argument was made that the > survival of animals in the future depends on their tastiness. > > "...like it or not, when we render this planet uninhabitable, we’re going to > have to move to another, and the only thing that’s going to make anyone let > animals into the spaceship is the chance to eat them." > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/the-winner-of-our-contest-on-the-ethics-of-eating-meat.html?src=recg > > Is anyone out there writing space opera? Are there food animals on board your > ship? > > Alicia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
