Thanos had the right idea.
We should make this a saying.
shareCreating trumps destroying.
If new stars and solar systems are born all the time...genocide is not the solution.
Expansion/migration is.
Our sorry ass civilization on our tiny planet needs to get on the ball about taking to the stars.
First stop: a barren red planet where even the inhabitants hate us so much they hide underground.
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Honestly, it's probably not happening. We're more likely to go the VR route and become more stationary. We're going to reach a point where manipulating the chemical processes in our brains becomes so easy that reality and virtuality become the same thing. When we reach that point, space travel won't feel any more real, and will also be hundreds of years later, perhaps requiring thousands of years of sleeping to reach the stars.
I also believe VR is the answer to the Fermi paradox which questions why we haven't seen intelligent life. As civilizations advance in technology, they reach the height of simulating reality long before space travel becomes routine.
I fear that a civilization who embraces that is a civilization that will force those of a certain age or health status to be in a VR comatose state and live the rest of their days in VR bliss while tube fed with algae-based nourishment.
I donβt know about you but maybe thatβd be a blessing to those in countries in perpetual poverty.
(Or welfare mooches in developed countries...)
Question is...will it result in mandatory euthanasia for population control?
Hey...as long as their VR death is a blissful one...
That level of Brain in a jar style VR is not something we are going to stumble upon anytime soon.
shareI'd still put it centuries ahead of terraforming Mars. I'd even put it ahead of cryo-sleep. Not to mention, VR is way more commercially viable. The only way I see us colonizing other planets is to avoid certain death, and I just don't buy a scenario where an extraterrestrial planet is less lethal than earth.
shareI also believe VR is the answer to the Fermi paradox which questions why we haven't seen intelligent life. As civilizations advance in technology, they reach the height of simulating reality long before space travel becomes routine.
Woah, woah, slow down there fella. Not everyone is fluent in all that scientific jargon. You're gonna have to explain to me what you mean by things like "height" and "routine". share