Chrysalis and the Mathematics of Wishful Thinking
Sensationalism Vs Journalism! How Journalism should have been the best in today's day and age but is long dead. See the BS article and a critical thought below that shit article Shitty journalism: Inside Chrysalis: This 36-mile generational starship could keep 1,000 humans alive for 250 years beyond the solar system My critical thought! A catalogue of what the press forgot to check, and what the engineers forgot to fear. There is a particular kind of science journalism that makes me want to set something down on a table very slowly and breathe for a moment. It arrives dressed as wonder. It gestures at the infinite. It borrows the emotional weight of genuine discovery and drapes it over a design competition entry... and then it moves on before anyone can ask a single arithmetic question. The Chrysalis generational starship has been making rounds in the science press for the better part of a year now, reported with a breathlessness usually reserved for actual launches. The headlin...