Generation Ships

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Respectfully, can you explain why you beleive this?

If we're contemplating a 200 year voyage and look back over the last 200 years of our history it is only democracies that have endured that long.

The generation ship has a different set of variables than the last 200 years on Earth. For a start the generation ship only has one government unless things have already started to go horribly wrong. Also, the ship can't afford to have economic growth.