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To quote an Applied Math professor from college (Thomas K. Donaldson): "When we reach the stars, we won't need planets." The kind of competition and resource
by Tloewald 13y ago
To quote an Applied Math professor from college (Thomas K. Donaldson):
"When we reach the stars, we won't need planets."
The kind of competition and resource exhaustion you're talking about is on a scale where interstellar conquest is kind of a moot point.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoI disagree. Even stars run down, and there's also the issue of drifting debris clouds and various other "Natural Disasters IN SPAAAACE!". Though, yes, admittedly, a star-faring civilization might be developed enough that "moving house" becomes an applicable metaphor: if your old star runs down, just move to a new one that's unoccupied, and since life is rare there will be plenty of those. Hmmmm... Now I'm imagining a huge set of future Highly Developed Civilizations conducting some kind of scientific conference to share their progress on the matter of the Last Question, since they all realize the bind they're in and would rather work on the problem scientifically now to get increased or unlimited resource sustainability rather than pillage the universe and end up fighting wars with relativistic weaponry in a few billion years.