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If we survive 300 years we will have self sufficient spacecraft (probably asteroids) and power not reliant on the sun (fusion) Once you have that you inevitabl
by midasuni 5y ago
If we survive 300 years we will have self sufficient spacecraft (probably asteroids) and power not reliant on the sun (fusion)
Once you have that you inevitably have groups heading off into space in different directions, never to return to Earth, but some will survive trips to other stars, and some will multiply and branch out from then
At that point humanity or its descendants will inevitably fill the entire galaxy, although it won’t be a single civilisation.
- buro9 5y agoWe'll need to improve our collation and storage of the sum of human knowledge. Today if you took the scrapable internet + wikipedia + all academic journals, you still probably lack enough detail and method to reproduce techniques in manufacturing, mining, tooling, medicine, and so on. If the hypothesis is that humans will survive so long as we are off-planet, then the humans leaving the planet need to be able to do everything fully disconnected from the home world to really survive if something happens to the populace on the home world.
- zdkl 5y agoI really like the IPFS solution to this. Basically a torrent where each chunk is addressable, so you get deduplication on each mirror even across unrelated file hierarchies.