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Hand-wavy predictions like this scare me - it suggests people don't understand space travel or the distances involved at all. Sure, if you think of the Earth a
by StireFarter 4y ago
Hand-wavy predictions like this scare me - it suggests people don't understand space travel or the distances involved at all.
Sure, if you think of the Earth as a game of SimCity plus Kerbal Space Program, these discussions about exponential growth are interesting. However, they miss the part where the intervening 30-100 years become literal hell on Earth while space travel ramps up.
- adastra22 4y agoI started my career at NASA. I'm working on an asteroid mining startup. I'm well aware of the vastness of space :) The GP said 400 years. That's the time since the age of exploration until now. That's a vast era of time, and exponential technology development goes both ways.