Generation Ships

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Sindri

Not to mention being a neon sign asking for disaster. I think it's reasonable for there to be excess production of food.

This pretty much needs to be true for everything. Trying to run a society as a total command economy where everything has to be perfectly right all the time or we all die is not going to work for years, let alone generations. You absolutely need some margin in everything or you are going to have a disaster. At absolute minimum, you need to set things up so something going wrong only means some of us die, and we have redundant people we can afford that.