What would you do if you had centuries or millennia of life to accomplish it?

[Horatius]

@xtenkfarpl

I’d do a lot more traveling, for one thing.

I’d do a lot more traveling. Like, spend a few centuries building and then using a Generation Ship, as we’ve discussed in other threads, but without the need for “generations”, which always seem to be where these things go wrong in sci-fi stories. Make it big enough and populous enough not to get bored while you’re en route, that would be the key. I figure most people spend about 90% of their time in the same one city anyways, so it can’t be that hard to make a city in space that would keep you occupied.

What to bring to colonize a new planet?

So I’ve been reading some SF lately (Tau Zero particularly) and wondered about what you’d need to bring with you if you need to start a human civilization on a new planet, without the option of getting help from Mother Earth. So it’s a single trip, you have your crew of say some 50-100 persons, a ship with advanced technology, the amount of stuff you can put in a large ship. But: you won’t have any of the infrastructure we take for granted on Earth: no power plants, no hospitals, none of the cou…