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[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Are you a round earth nutter?

It's not going to happen. No one is going to get past the edge of the world or sail the whole world or find new land.

Ever.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

If you don't see how that's a completely dumb comparison, this is hopeless. I'm reality-based, you are not.

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[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sure, friend. You can see reality thousands of years into the future and know exactly what happens.

My bad.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Do you think physics and chemistry have changed in some significant way over the last thousand years?

Yet somehow, YOU can see reality in a thousand years, and it matches the sci-fi mindrot you watched as a kid...

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[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes? Not the principles behind them, but our understanding of them as a species.

You're a boring doomer who thinks humans will never find, create, or invent something we've never done before? Seriously? What kind of boring hill is that to die on?

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Uh, it's called "reality" my friend, try it.

You can't "invent" your way out of fundamental physical limits.

A Boeing 747 looks the same in 1969 as it does today. It still flies over the Atlantic in six hours burning kerosene in turbofan engines.

Sure, you can get a few percent here, a few percent there, but do you think suddenly we'll have warp drive?

Come on. Do you know how empty and huge space is?

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[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Nope, you're right. We know everything there is to ever know and nothing will ever change. We've peaked as a species, there is literally nowhere else to go from here.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Oh OK, the only logical counterpoint is we're going to space.

Wheeee!!! Dibs on Neptune!

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

In practice my comment means that it's far too early to think of space colonization.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Far too late as well. It will never happen.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I disagree. It just won't be fancy. It has to be an enormous project with existential risks. And you have to really send many people at once with no return ticket. "At once" is important, you can't ramp it up, that's far more expensive. It has to be a mission very deeply planned in detail with plenty of failsafe paths, aimed at building a colony that can be maintained with Earth's teaching resources, technologies and expertise, and locally produced and processed materials for everything. So - something like that won't happen anytime soon, but at some point it will happen.

The technologies necessary have to be perfected first, computing should stop being the main tool for hype, and the societies should adapt culturally for computing and worldwide connectivity.

These take centuries. In those centuries we'll be busy with plenty of things existential, like avoiding the planet turning into one big 70s Cambodia.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

Um, OK.