It would (don't quote me) take over 6000 centuries (calculated using cassini probe speeds) to travel from earth to the nearest star with an extrasolar planet, let alone a likely habitable planet.
Imagine we put 20 people in a space craft, and send them to Epsilon Eridani. Ignoring the baffling problems concerning food, education, social structure, lack of gene pool diversity and a plethora of other problems, what would happen to language?
I'm fairly certain that if you put people in a position where they no longer have ability to contact us for a long enough time, their language will change. Furthermore, I'm absolutely certain that after millions of years, they won't speak a language we can understand with ease.
I might be wrong, but the say I see it, we have to develop a system to maintain language over thousands, even millions of years. Any ideas, rebuttals? |
