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But even before the Industrial Revolution, technology was advancing shockingly quickly, at least on cosmological timescales. If there were no commercially explo
by ProjectArcturis 4y ago
But even before the Industrial Revolution, technology was advancing shockingly quickly, at least on cosmological timescales. If there were no commercially exploitable fossil fuels, would we have simply developed better wind and water energy? Even primitive solar (point a group of mirrors at a pot of water to boil it) could have arisen.
- baking 4y agoThis goes in a different direction, but my thought experiment is to think about what would happen if our civilization collapsed. Assuming you had access to libraries and lots of old equipment, could you ever make a new solar cell or a wind turbine. And the Fermi Paradox is really about becoming a space-faring civilization. You need to do a lot more than boil water to show up on the galactic map.