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It is unsettling though. Because it places a limit on what has so far been essentially limitless success as a species. Without travel beyond our solar system,
by Loughla 2y ago
It is unsettling though. Because it places a limit on what has so far been essentially limitless success as a species.
Without travel beyond our solar system, we won't last forever.
And that's kind of sad for me.
- dTal 2y agoWe won't last forever anyway. Nothing does.
- rkagerer 2y agoIf I was a really advanced civilization and the universe was nearing its end, I'd embark on a project of unparalleled scale that might wind up resembling a big bang with a spark of panspermia-precursor seasoned in.
- luxpir 2y agoGoosebumps thinking of how many universes could have played out before this one. Or alongside it.
- lloeki 2y agoGoosebumps just with ours already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
- mab122 2y agoMay I... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
- worstspotgain 2y agoIndeed, we know so little about the nature of things that it's really a bit premature to hold our current understanding as the final word over what will happen. For one thing, a large fraction of possibilities involves simulations. In a simulation with successful traits, some constants and elementary particles might turn out to have been misunderstood later on...
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- tshaddox 2y agoDoesn’t seem like a limit to me, other than a limit on speed (and of course there will be limits on speed).
- ben_w 2y agoWe don't need a warp drive to get to the next star, it would just make it faster.
- wongarsu 2y agoExactly. If we set our minds to it and dedicated enough resources we could likely reach the next star within the century: 40 years travel time at 0.1c with something like nuclear pulse propulsion, and we could probably get the remaining technical challenges for achieving that out of the way in 30 years.
- SanderNL 2y agoIt’s sad to not last forever? That’s an interesting thought. I understand, don’t get me wrong, but it’s completely unnatural in so many ways.
- baq 2y agoIn a physically constrained system all exponential growth becomes at best a sigmoid sooner or later... it's only sad if you let it make you feel this way.
- pfdietz 2y agoWe don't need FTL to colonize beyond the solar system, not at all.