This 36-Mile-Long Spaceship Could Take Humanity to Another Solar System

This 36-Mile-Long Spaceship Could Take Humanity to Another Solar System

Have you ever read Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama? Or, maybe more recently, have you seen that gigantic generation ship from the end of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar? If you’ve said yes to either, then you’re already familiar with the unfathomably giant spaceship. It’s the kind of ship humanity might need to carry us like a massive life raft to a new home should we thoroughly destroy this one. Ships like that have long been sci-fi fo…