# What would you do if you had centuries or millennia of life to accomplish it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-centuries-or-millennia-of-life-to-accomplish-it/1021900 "2025-08-10T03:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-centuries-or-millennia-of-life-to-accomplish-it/1021900/17 "2025-08-11T15:01:53Z")
> [@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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-bring-to-colonize-a-new-planet/1012055): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-centuries-or-millennia-of-life-to-accomplish-it/1021900)._