Is there such a thing as a ship too big to be considered a generation ship? The planet-sized ship in Ted Reynold's Ker-plop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ker-Plop ), which has living space far vaster than any merely surface-inhabited natural world, has been traveling for 300,000 years and its inhabitants seem well enough off.
I think the definition mostly comes down to purpose. If the purpose of the ship is to allow your species to colonize another place, it's a generation ship. If it's just a habitat, it's something else.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2020-08-28 10:36 am
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