There’s a lot of objects in the universe. At the most generous imaginable estimate, what might be the ratio of naturally-occuring without any kind of conscious construction, to those that might be made by even the largest sci fi civilizations?
I feel like so many people get their hopes up, they want to see something cool before they personally die of old age or whatever. So aliens and AI and all that crap need to be today, not in the future when our capabilities have actually advanced enough to deal with these things.
Sorry people, we’re middle generations. We probably all die right before the super cool shit takes off, like life extension. We’re the middle child of Earth’s human history. We don’t get the simple times of our elders, or the magnificent times of our descendents. We get … this. It’s fine. At least you didn’t get polio and you can casually fly in aircraft and you carry the internet in your back pocket. And frankly, we’re still figuring out the fallout from that shit, so maybe taking it slower isn’t such a bad idea.
Yet we are still here. No single civilization needs last forever, no single way of doing things ever will. But we will remain. Likely still technological, likely still modern.
It took civilization thousands of years to recover from that collapse. This is not something to be simply dismissed.
Also, in the case of Climate Change, it will take millions of years for Earth to recover once our civilization has collapsed, this is an even bigger hurdle.
There’s a lot of objects in the universe. At the most generous imaginable estimate, what might be the ratio of naturally-occuring without any kind of conscious construction, to those that might be made by even the largest sci fi civilizations?
I feel like so many people get their hopes up, they want to see something cool before they personally die of old age or whatever. So aliens and AI and all that crap need to be today, not in the future when our capabilities have actually advanced enough to deal with these things.
Sorry people, we’re middle generations. We probably all die right before the super cool shit takes off, like life extension. We’re the middle child of Earth’s human history. We don’t get the simple times of our elders, or the magnificent times of our descendents. We get … this. It’s fine. At least you didn’t get polio and you can casually fly in aircraft and you carry the internet in your back pocket. And frankly, we’re still figuring out the fallout from that shit, so maybe taking it slower isn’t such a bad idea.
Really generous estimation of the hellscape we’re leaving for our descendants. This IS the glory days. It’s all downhill from here.
A sentiment as old as civilization. Hasn’t been right yet.
Maybe look into the Bronze Age Collapse. It has happened before.
Yet we are still here. No single civilization needs last forever, no single way of doing things ever will. But we will remain. Likely still technological, likely still modern.
It took civilization thousands of years to recover from that collapse. This is not something to be simply dismissed.
Also, in the case of Climate Change, it will take millions of years for Earth to recover once our civilization has collapsed, this is an even bigger hurdle.
It took hundreds of years for a few civilizations to recover. Other regions were untouched. You are cherry picking.
Then it’s pretty bold of you to be making generalizations and predictions in your wall of text OP.
Yea, I won’t argue with that. I’m a fairly bold individual.
Least we had the best memes.