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This is exciting stuff indeed. Imagine a year-4,000 spaceship reaching Centauri before another spaceship dispatched 1,000 years before it? For the cynical or p
by rmbyrro 5y ago
This is exciting stuff indeed. Imagine a year-4,000 spaceship reaching Centauri before another spaceship dispatched 1,000 years before it?
For the cynical or pessimists: I'm not optimistic about humanity reaching year-4,000, I'm just possibilistic about it (as in the philosophical meaning [1]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actualism#:~:text=possibilism,%20the%20thesis%20that%20there%20are%20some%20entities%20that%20are%20merely%20possible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actualism#:~:text=possibilism,...
- rbanffy 5y agoThis is more or less the plot of a story by Brazilian science fiction writer Roberto Luiz Calife.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThis is literally the plot of a very old computer game Alien Legacy. [0] [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Legacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Legacy
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI can't imagine humanity not making it to 4000. There are very few true existential threats.