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There's an old science fiction short story with humans and other species eventually leaving the planet, like a baby emerging from the womb, and becoming wise ol

There's an old science fiction short story with humans and other species eventually leaving the planet, like a baby emerging from the womb, and becoming wise old aliens. This is fiction. We aren't striving for anything.

haxiomic 5y ago
There’s a lot of people working non stop to make us at least multi-planetary With the rate of change in technology, the limits we have now that make surviving off world will surely dissolve over the centuries I think, like much of last century’s science fiction, it doesn’t stay fiction for so long
- anotherman554 5y ago
  I guess I'm more a glass half empty kind of guy. Almost every human who has ever lived has died unable to solve fundamental problems of how to prevent death due to natural causes or disease. There are problems which- so far- are beyond human intelligence. While I can't rule out the possibility of people living offworld one day I also can't rule out the possibility we'll hit a limit of human intelligence or organizational capability.
  - haxiomic 5y ago
    Sometimes I try to imagine living in the past or far future and I can’t help but have a feeling of “Oh dear lord I’m lucky to be a working age adult in _this_ particular moment of human history” The far future an individual human is perhaps unlikely to be able to contribute much - perhaps as you say, we’ve reached a plateau of development And in the past individuals had less mobility to contribute to what they wanted But right now we’re in the middle of an exponential explosion of development and we can’t get enough smart motivated people to power it So right now it’s possible to get involved in so many exciting projects and make a decent contribution - including making humans multi-planetary if that is your dream
muzani 5y ago
We'll just be colonists, like our ancestors. Some good, some evil. Some heroes. Many villains.

haxiomic 5y ago

There’s a lot of people working non stop to make us at least multi-planetary With the rate of change in technology, the limits we have now that make surviving off world will surely dissolve over the centuries I think, like much of last century’s science fiction, it doesn’t stay fiction for so long

anotherman554 5y ago
I guess I'm more a glass half empty kind of guy. Almost every human who has ever lived has died unable to solve fundamental problems of how to prevent death due to natural causes or disease. There are problems which- so far- are beyond human intelligence. While I can't rule out the possibility of people living offworld one day I also can't rule out the possibility we'll hit a limit of human intelligence or organizational capability.
- haxiomic 5y ago
  Sometimes I try to imagine living in the past or far future and I can’t help but have a feeling of “Oh dear lord I’m lucky to be a working age adult in _this_ particular moment of human history” The far future an individual human is perhaps unlikely to be able to contribute much - perhaps as you say, we’ve reached a plateau of development And in the past individuals had less mobility to contribute to what they wanted But right now we’re in the middle of an exponential explosion of development and we can’t get enough smart motivated people to power it So right now it’s possible to get involved in so many exciting projects and make a decent contribution - including making humans multi-planetary if that is your dream

muzani 5y ago

We'll just be colonists, like our ancestors. Some good, some evil. Some heroes. Many villains.