The Blue Board

Basically we are going from liquid fuel rockets to ion propulsion rockets. I think we are another 2-3 generations away from having the propulsion breakthrough necessary. There's also a distinct chance humanity hasnt reached its new home yet when Earth is no longer habitable. If we find where we are going and it takes 125 years to get there lets say then there's a damn good chance when that crew comes out of stasis they'll get the update that they are the only ones left. Crazy.

I can talk about trans-humanism, future of A.I. and a number of other topics all day.

It pains me that we give NASA so little money. They are putting the successor to the Hubble Telescope up in 2-3 years and it will cost like 6 Billion dollars over 8 years to build. We should be trying to put numerous new techs up there in cooperation with the ESA and China. We need to learn as much as possible as soon as possible. JMO

There needs to be more privatizing for it to happen. NASA can only do so much with their budget but private corporations can only do so much with regulations (we can't just let anyone go launching rockets after all).

Fossil fuels? lol.

When we make the jump it will be in large part because we are beyond those. The singular, biggest challenge we face as a species IMO is energy creation/usage/distribution.

In 100 years mankind needs to have everything running off a single atom of dark energy or antimatter or something.

PS: If the answer to this is no you are predicting that the species will die out, likely within, 4-10K years. Every model ever run says it. Not saying that makes you wrong but its an inherent part of that prediction.

So you are saying oil will not be needed in this time. That's fine. I still think gravity and water are big issues here.

What about oxygen? Nobody is going to wear oxygen tanks nonstop so they can live on mars.

Ha, we'll never make it to another habitable planet if we're still relying on fossil fuels.

There is extremely valid reasoning behind us never making it off. Based around the Fermi Paradox and what's been best summarized by the great filter. Basically, the fact that the universe isn't already just a vast interconnected community suggests there is a major bottleneck that occurs at some point along the evolutionary line between the creation of life and interplanetary colonization.

Great read for the thinking man.

I read and watch documentaries about this all the time

I think that's a thread all its own, if you had to say where a single great filter exists in that list where would it be.

Off the top of my head I think there are very few, as in less than 1,000, instances in which multi-cellular life has occurred in the universe in it's history. Therefore I believe that's the main filter. I also believe though there is a second one about right where we are now. Something has to be extremely difficult to overcome in order to get through and past technological adolescence. It must have been the demise of at least 10-25 other civilizations similar to our own.

Or is there a straight up bustling multi-planet, multi species community out there, straight out of Star Wars, and we are just in a back water area of the solar system that they havent bothered to check out?

I don't even know brah, Im not smart enough for this kind of talk and have to keep it real on that front

I do find it all incredibly fascinating, but its all way over my head so to speak

Have you seen " design by future " ? kind a cool look at the could be future on this planet that I also find incredibly interesting, both topics get about 4 hours a week of thought and viewing/reading for me

But I literally can't have a conversation about it without sounding like a total jackass, good thread though

We'll find a mass effect object likely withing 150 years that propels the human technological evolution exponetially until a military brat has to fight off these mechanical beings called reapers to allow our continued domination.

This is what will likely happen IMO.