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#221
I wonder how many "volunteers" would be found that hated the Earth so much, that they would willingly launch into space knowing that they would never see the Earth Again, and would spend their life traveling in a finned cylinder, filled with electronics, with at best, a handful of other travelers, which are so pressed together, that the only way that they could escape them, if they became so inclined, was through death...either naturally or via murder.
Despite any heroic traits they may have, which is more often than not, fostered by the desire for fame, which they could never enjoy in their solitude. Or curiosity, which I'm sure would fade over time. I think that they would need to be kept permanently drugged, just to tolerate the situation. It would be a cold, black hell.
Of course, the sci-fi answer to that is cryosleep, but that has it's own problems.