Vanamonde

Since this is not a challenge, the thread has been moved to Gameplay questions.

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There are several factors at work. In addition to the things others have said: Genes which are more advantageous live to reproduce themselves. Since the parent can't acquire fundamental new traits during its lifetime, eventually, it's off-spring and grand-offspring (etc.) will out-compete it with their newer, more advantageous genes. So even if the parent didn't ever die of old age, eventually it would starve, or fall behind the rest of the herd and be the one the predator picks off, or whatever. Superior new generations continue while the primitive progenitor dies. Once an animal reproduces, it's nearly irrelevant to evolution because any new advantages it did manage to acquire after that would die with it and not be passed along. Therefore, there's little long-term advantage to the parent staying alive once the offspring are mature, so there's little evolutionary pressure for the parent to outlive its usefulness. And evolution seldom wastes resources developing something which has no utility.

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Yep, can be done. Not sure if there are advantages to it, though. Flying a new fuel module to the thing would require you to have docking ports on each part. On the other hand, you could dock a tanker to a one-piece ship and transfer fuel through a single set of rings.

This post has been moved to its own thread, since it doesn't belong in the stations showcase thread. Feel free to edit the temporary title.

Well, the thread has gone from whether nuclear winter was a sound theory to calling each other names over climate change, with a little detour through genocide. Time to go do something else before we have to give out more infractions and you all hate each other. Say, how about playing a spaceflight game full of cute little green people instead?

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Oh, jeez. Guys, rather than clutter up the threads with remarks which may offend the OP, how about just hitting the report button when you come across something that seems to be in the wrong place? Off to do some tidying...

Moved to Spacecraft Exchange. Also, some posts have been removed. Guys, rather than confront the OP with remarks in the thread, please just hit the report button and let us moderators know when something needs to be moved.

This is a common and unremarkable occurrence. I myself move perhaps 5 to 20 threads per week, and of course I'm not the only moderator. You merely seem to have been running across some of them before we get to them lately, for one reason or another.

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Well, guys. What usually happens in threads of this sort is that somebody comes along with a contrary opinion, and then others attack him/her, and it turns into arguments and insults and we have to close the thread. Try not to do that this time, okay? How does it get started? By identifying one side as absolutely wrong, so that anyone who believes in it is a "blatant fool" and a "conspiracy nut." Even if you do really believe that, calling people names is not going to convince them of the validity of your own arguments. So restrict the discussion to proof and facts, because just mocking how stupid "they" are compared to "us" will get the thread shut down.

The longevity of species and whether or not there would be humans to react to such a voyage are not relevant to the subject of this thread. That's an interesting discussion to have, but if you're going to, please take it to its own thread. And as always, please take a moment to calm down and remember that your fellow forum members are not your enemies.