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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!