What if we can never travel faster than light?

tyler.durden said:

I can imagine us getting a message back in 10,000 years from now: 'FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE STOP SENDING OUT HUMANS!' or, 'PLEASE SEND MORE HUMANS. THEY ARE SO TASTY!' We do have a chewy outside with a crunchy center, and a burst of savory goo. Damn, I just made myself hungry...

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lmao. That should be a stand up joke, it would kill!

One incredibly interesting thing this clip pointed out that I haven't given considerable thought to was how if we do ever migrate to other planets and star systems, it'll be exactly the same as when Darwin observed finches in the Galapagos, we will evolve beyond the point of reproduction = a new species. We will all be homo-...something.. but not all of us will be homosapien.. What an interesting concept to think about! Vulcan, Klingon, Ferengi.. Roddenberry was way ahead of his time, or maybe he just got super high a lot and thought about this shit all the time..

Padawanbater2 said:

lmao. That should be a stand up joke, it would kill!

One incredibly interesting thing this clip pointed out that I haven't given considerable thought to was how if we do ever migrate to other planets and star systems, it'll be exactly the same as when Darwin observed finches in the Galapagos, we will evolve beyond the point of reproduction = a new species. We will all be homo-...something.. but not all of us will be homosapien.. What an interesting concept to think about! Vulcan, Klingon, Ferengi.. Roddenberry was way ahead of his time, or maybe he just got super high a lot and thought about this shit all the time..

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tyler.durden said:

Yeah, that is a really great concept; to seed the cosmos by exponentiation. That has never occurred to me before. The problem of raising human infants by some AI machines built into ships, not to mention somehow terraforming each new atmosphere to be ideal for humans, seems amazingly complex. I hope I'm around long enough to see some to these things progress, the Mars mission has me really excited...

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Padawanbater2 said:

The AI building the infrastructure (OUT OF GOLD! WTF?!) and caring for the infants of the eventual seeds from Earth make for a FANTASTIC scifi movie concept! I found this clip from a thread on Reddit, and one of the comments mentioned that's what they thought the concept of Interstellar was, I just thought that would be a great idea for a movie! Another commenter mentioned how awesome this seemingly inevitable concept (if we don't kill ourselves first) would lead to us, here, now, as original Earth ancestors so to speak.. Our descendents would envy us, we were the fucking FIRST to do it, to be here and get ourselves to another body in space. Those (my mom and pops) generation that reached the Moon first will be the most envied, but fuck it, I was second. LOL! My generation will be the first to land on Mars, all of us have, if nothing else, this to be proud of. Thousands if not millions of years from now, when there are hundreds of thousands of species of our descendants inhabiting the galaxy, they will all be able to look back at us now, because we have an actual recorded history, and actually fucking SEE it, for themselves.. All we have are pictures, paintings, poems, maybe or maybe not bullshit anecdotes.. They'll have the truth.

Just imagine the implications of that...

One of these beings from a million years in the future could look up this actual post from some archive that will exist.. People in 3,795 will be able to watch Youtube clips from 1999 about Y2K and laugh their asses off.. The entire history will be available..

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