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"..this planet will float deserted through space" You can call it transhumanism but you can’t call it a future
The discrepancy between the time span a tech civilisation needs to ruin the planet (200 years) and the time span needed to reach an exoplanet (>1000 years incl tech preparation) tells clearly what is wrong and what should be done — saving home and staying home...
Nordic » Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:12 pm wrote:
Apparently we already have pig/human chimeras.
The creepy Starchild from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still floating around
While movie props often end up looking their age after 50 years (and often less), this one is just as baby-faced as it was when in 1967 when it was born at the hands of sculptor Liz Moore in MGM Studios’ 2001 art department—and still crawling all over the planet with the traveling Stanley Kubrick exhibition. I
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-creep ... ing-around
Nordic » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:12 pm wrote:Has anyone ever explored the idea that maybe it’s not a good idea for life on earth to be constantly blasting holes through the all the layers of the earth’s atmosphere with big fuel-burning rockets?
Nobody’s studied that?
No, humans think it’s ok to just TRY everything they can imagine. It’s both our brilliance and our destructive stupidity.
Apparently we already have pig/human chimeras. Wow, we can DO this, y’all!
DrEvil » Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:24 pm
Unfortunately, the sad fact is that if we stay a single-planet species then we will go extinct.
Cordelia » Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:54 am wrote:Echo in Space to all Rory wrote on this thread.
DrEvil » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:47 pm wrote:^^I think it would be bad. Eventually we're going no matter what, either by extinction or by evolving - naturally or technologically - into something else, and I would prefer it was the latter. That's the whole point of life: to hang on as long as possible with a cheeky grin and a raised middle finger to entropy. If trashing this tiny ball of rock is all we ever achieve I will be sorely disappointed. I want us to trash all the planets!
Cordelia » Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:17 pm wrote:DrEvil » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:47 pm wrote:^^I think it would be bad. Eventually we're going no matter what, either by extinction or by evolving - naturally or technologically - into something else, and I would prefer it was the latter. That's the whole point of life: to hang on as long as possible with a cheeky grin and a raised middle finger to entropy. If trashing this tiny ball of rock is all we ever achieve I will be sorely disappointed. I want us to trash all the planets!
~Lack of empathy--Check
~Peak Survival Instinct--Check
~Haughty contempt for others--Check
~Off-the-chart competition levels--Check
Why aren't you a billionaire DrEvil--or are you?
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