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Take your pick: climate change, nuclear holocaust, Kessler syndrome, we’re headed for a bunch of great filters with nobody hitting the brakes.
by vermilingua 6y ago
Take your pick: climate change, nuclear holocaust, Kessler syndrome, we’re headed for a bunch of great filters with nobody hitting the brakes.
- ars 6y agoYou forgot the cell phone. No one is ever bored anymore, and all those serendipitous discoveries no longer happen. When was the last time you heard of a real genius? Or something genuinely new, rather than just slightly better than what came before it?
- greesil 6y agoHow about a reusable rocket ship?
- ars 6y agoThe space shuttle was meant to be reusable - it was built 40 years ago in 1980. I'm not saying there is no new tech, it just all seems incremental, not revolutionary. When I was younger every day it seemed there was something new. Today, not so much.
- 2bitencryption 6y agoSounds more like a problem with your perception than a problem with all of civilization.
- throwaway316943 6y agoYou might just need to pay attention to the right things. Genetics is making steady progress and promises to revolutionize almost everything. Machine learning seems to be applicable to most things and if only suffering from a lack of optimization. The road to space is opening and we’re about to find out just how many new technologies will be made possible with unlimited solar power, microgravity, and untapped resources.
- mhh__ 6y agoAnd the space shuttle was crap. (I'm being overly dramatic, but it had severe flaws)
- ALittleLight 6y ago"meant to be" versus rockets that land and can be reused.
- bee_rider 6y agoThat could be it, but it also could be just that all the low hanging fruit is all taken. Like Newton is a genius for coming up with an equation for making delta-x really small, I could have come up with that and I don't even dabble in alchemy.