[Qent]

I imagine the entire UEF as white with Australian accents.

[Dilmah G]

Eh mate? What'd you say about the barbie?!

[blowfish]

Being so far in the future, it's quite possible that cultures have mixed sufficiently that you could imagine nearly any combination of names/accent/physical appearance and have it be reasonable.

[Mars]

300-400 years is close enough that I would expect to see quite a bit of distinctiveness still.

[Pred the Penguin]

Not in countries like the US, where you get ethnic backgrounds literally from all around the world.

[QuantumDelta]

Nor most of western europe or the better areas of asia.

[Ypoknons]

Cultural diversity to me is a lot more interesting a racial/genetic diversity - an opinion formed by growing up ethnically diverse crowd in different areas, it's interesting to see what everyone 'picks'

[Snail]

Also, off-world colonies developing their own cultures.

[Rodo]

Yeah, Martians rule.

[NGTM-1R]

300-400 years is close enough that I would expect to see quite a bit of distinctiveness still.

I already know full-blooded Japanese with the last name "McKinney".

[SypheDMar]

I know Chinese with the last name "Lee".

[Pred the Penguin]

That's... a pretty normal sounding Chinese last name.
Point is, in 300~400 years it would be near impossible to tell people of different ethnic origins apart by last name only.

[SypheDMar]

That's... a pretty normal sounding Chinese last name.
Point is, in 300~400 years it would be near impossible to tell people of different ethnic origins apart by last name only.

That was a joke.

[-Sara-]

It's also interesting what 300 years of different gravity and conditions do to a person. They might be more slim or otherwise. I can imagine having to addapt to radically different living conditions will result into HUGE social changes. We've seen only the tip of the iceberg so far of that I think.

[Qent]

They might have increased the gravity artificially.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's also interesting what 300 years of different gravity and conditions do to a person. They might be more slim or otherwise. I can imagine having to addapt to radically different living conditions will result into HUGE social changes. We've seen only the tip of the iceberg so far of that I think.

A lack of gravity may make them physically weaker, as it does to most astronauts in space.

[Dilmah G]

Well at least the pilots must have kept fit. Believe me, even at 4g's, sustaining a conversation is a hard ask for extended periods, let alone tangling at 9g+ that fighter pilots pull.

[Flak]

You mean a chinese whose name don't sound chinese and can't speak mandarin? that's me

[NGTM-1R]

Well at least the pilots must have kept fit. Believe me, even at 4g's, sustaining a conversation is a hard ask for extended periods, let alone tangling at 9g+ that fighter pilots pull.

FS fighters appear to operate at relatively gentle acceleration regimes...

[-Sara-]

Stargate cheated by throwing in the whole inertia inhibitors, or whatever, which nullified the amount of G's a pilot pulled in space. Since I assume people walk onboard Freespace ships instead of floating around, thus giving evidence to technology for artificial gravity etc, such may be possible entirely for fightercraft as an opposite, reducing the amount of G's a pilot suffers from. Sci-fi flavour.