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Alteres posted...

Not within this galactic cluster

They're still light years away though. The closest one is like 4 lightyears, we aren't going to get to it ever. The entire situation on earth will be way too fucked by the time we need to bail and we won't have the tech by the time that happens in all likelihood.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

They're still light years away though. The closest one is like 4 lightyears, we aren't going to get to it ever. The entire situation on earth will be way too fucked by the time we need to bail and we won't have the tech by the time that happens in all likelihood.

Cool, so what do you suggest? Should we all just give up and lie down and die? Should we stop having any kind of optimism for the future and just all be grumpy pieces of shit? I'm generally curious as to what you believe your piss poor attitude brings to any discussion.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

Cool, so what do you suggest? Should we all just give up and lie down and die? Should we stop having any kind of optimism for the future and just all be grumpy pieces of shit? I'm generally curious as to what you believe your piss poor attitude brings to any discussion.

I suggest we fix the glaring issues threatening the future before we stay dreaming and never awaken from the nightmare.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

When you remember that it has been entirely decided for you in a way that's entirely arbitrary (i.e. people who happen to have power dictating which things they happen to have seen have meaning) and that you're just marching in step with those dictations, yes. I'd say that's arbitrary and meaningless. You wouldn't even notice a "Starry Night" if it were just some random person's deviant art entry, you value it because you were told to.

This is all your FAR MORE ARBITRARY definition. Your opinion does not outweigh millenia of human exploration of the world we live in.

YOU see no value in culture or humanity. THATS YOU. I'm sorry you didn't have a great family life, but maybe take a moment away from the keyboard next time you think its smart to say that people's children should be forgotten.

Where's the circus? The clowns are out in full force.

BloodMoon7 posted...

I suggest we fix the glaring issues threatening the future before we stay dreaming and never awaken from the nightmare.

So we're dreaming AND in a nightmare? So the nightmare isn't real and we can just wake up from it and life is actually easy? Whew, that's a relief.

Technology isn't some bottomless magic bag of free gifts. Our planet's resources are finite, and there may never be sufficient to get enough of us off this planet to survive and thrive beyond our own atmosphere, never mind the solar system.

Lots of depressed Nihilists in this thread, sheesh.

Try watching PBS spacetime on YouTube. The last episode was about launching multiple probes with cameras out to about 450 AUs from the Sun. At that distance, the Sun acts like a giant cosmic lense and we'll be able to take detailed pictures and maps of Alien wolds. We are living in an exciting time when it comes to major scientific advancements.

Well that depends on when it ends

kelemvor posted...

Lots of depressed Nihilists in this thread, sheesh.

Try watching PBS spacetime on YouTube. The last episode was about launching multiple probes with cameras out to about 450 AUs from the Sun. At that distance, the Sun acts like a giant cosmic lense and we'll be able to take detailed pictures and maps of Alien wolds. We are living in an exciting time when it comes to major scientific advancements.

NASA: *decades of research and engineering, lifelong careers, massive scientific discoveries*

Guy on his couch texting with one eye open: "Space is far"

silverpine posted...

this is just wrong lmfao

No its not. We are very low on the kardashev scale.

BloodMoon7 posted...

I suggest we fix the glaring issues threatening the future before we stay dreaming and never awaken from the nightmare.

You understand that there is a plethora of humans working on a vast number of projects that both address what is urgent now and what could be useful in the future, right? Humanity doesn't just work on one thing at a time.

We've already ruined the oceans and we're going to run out of oil one of these days, so human civilization won't last long enough to grow out of this infancy.

BloodMoon7 posted...

I suggest we fix the glaring issues threatening the future before we stay dreaming and never awaken from the nightmare.

This.

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

This is all your FAR MORE ARBITRARY definition. Your opinion does not outweigh millenia of human exploration of the world we live in.

YOU see no value in culture or humanity. THATS YOU. I'm sorry you didn't have a great family life, but maybe take a moment away from the keyboard next time you think its smart to say that people's children should be forgotten.

Do you have anything other than projection or nah. You're 4'7" and your dick is 1.3 inches hard btw

"people's children" lmao these celebrities aren't children

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

So we're dreaming AND in a nightmare? So the nightmare isn't real and we can just wake up from it and life is actually easy? Whew, that's a relief.

It's because the dream and the nightmare are one and the same. You may look towards the future but if we continue as we are, we will never reach it. Life is easy, life is hard. The fact that these two ideas yet persist is evidence of how we will always be in the endless dream. If you can never wake, wouldn't that just be a nightmare at one point? If you want to reach the future you must first awaken to reality. That's why I do not think optimism towards the future is a good thing. The time to dream is over. If you want to reach the future, you must ensure there is one. As things stand now, things don't look good. No amount of optimism will change that unless you back it up with your power. I hate pointless dreamers.

We don't really have anything to compare it to

What if there were already super advanced civilizations on Earth that were wiped out by mass extinction events, all knowledge of them was lost, and we're just like the 8th different generation of humans who have been raised up on Earth

IfGodCouldDie posted...

You understand that there is a plethora of humans working on a vast number of projects that both address what is urgent now and what could be useful in the future, right? Humanity doesn't just work on one thing at a time.

The amount of people doing that is severely outweighed by people who only do selfish things. People with money and power who could be reaching for the future but instead destroy the now. Humanity needs to work overtime now, if they ever hope to survive despite this.

Ain't no way in hell humanity will survive past 2050

I'd say we're more in the toddler stage. Able to move around and fuck shit up.

Which we do.

A lot.

Boombam99 posted...

What if there were already super advanced civilizations on Earth that were wiped out by mass extinction events, all knowledge of them was lost, and we're just like the 8th different generation of humans who have been raised up on Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

It's a legitimate thought.

To be honest, Mankind probably looked more bleak at multiple points in the past thousand years. We survived the Ice Age, the late Bronze Age collapse, the fall of Rome, the Mongol Hordes, Black Plague, the Dark Ages, and World War 2. We keep getting stronger and more advanced.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

Cool, so what do you suggest? Should we all just give up and lie down and die? Should we stop having any kind of optimism for the future and just all be grumpy pieces of shit? I'm generally curious as to what you believe your piss poor attitude brings to any discussion.

@Giblet_Enjoyer you seem to have missed this post.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

This.

Do you have anything other than projection or nah. You're 4'7" and your dick is 1.3 inches hard btw

No projection, you just dont put any thought into the "idea" you're expressing. You dont even know what you're saying. Fantastic.

"people's children" lmao these celebrities aren't children

The fuck are you talking about? Celebrities? What?

You're declining fast here, dude.

Forest_Temple posted...

No one is trying to make flying cars dude. Stop pretending you know more than lord Elon. You could study for a million years and still not be on his level mate.

Actually there are lots of people trying to make flying cars, like the company that flew theirs in Dubai a few days ago. Theyll probably never be as big a thing as sci-fi shows, but saying no one is trying is flat out wrong.

And tell me.. what other civilizations have we studied to formulate a baseline for how long an entire species' civilization should last?

We're only about 13,000 years away from humanity reaching its technological zenith. And then space Elves are going to ruin it when their decadent and hedonistic society collapses and gives birth to Slaanesh.

Not infancy, moreso terrible twos.

silverpine posted...

this is just wrong lmfao

Our civilization is still classified as Type 0. You don't even get to Type 1 until I think you can leave your solar system

Zikten posted...

Our civilization is still classified as Type 0. You don't even get to Type 1 until I think you can leave your solar system

No type 1 is just harnassing the power of your solar systems star and interplanetary travel. If I remember correctly we could be considered around 0.5 to 0.8 on that scale.