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A few years back famed sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (of Mars Trilogy fame) wrote a space book where the takeaway was basically about how interstellar colonization is hard and sucks, and that maybe we should appreciate living on our precious planet Earth.
And a certain section of sci-fi nerds got so mad.
Think about that a lot with stuff like this. Kill the space nerd in your head folks.
To colonize other worlds, it’s more economically viable to send machines, create biologically synthesized new species (taking dna from local species there), and then transfer consciousness to them. Similar with Avatar, but without having to have the spaceships arrive in the planet full of humans. Humans remain on earth, and they project their consciousness somewhere else, in an instant due to entanglement.
In order to colonize other worlds, it’s more economically viable to not go there in the first place. Even if you wanted to send just machines to another planet, it would take decades or even centuries to get there.
Unless you have a massive energy source, it’s going to take our current speeds over 100,000 years to make it to Alpha Centauri. If you harvested all the fossil fuels on earth, you could probably get a space shuttle near 98% light speed. You’d need to harvest the energy of a supernova to get to 100%. At 100% lightspeed, it takes four years to travel to our nearest neighbor. .
In other words, you’re using up all the energy on one planet to travel to another planet so you can harvest all the energy on that one to send an empty shuttle back to earth. The only way it’s going to be economically viable to travel to another star system is if we figure out something where our current understanding of physics is limited. Otherwise, our sole purpose for going to other systems should be for scientific exploration and research. It will be a money sink regardless of what we do.
ppl in that thread really advocating for genetically modifying humans to live in space or remote controlling ‘avatars’ with quantum entanglement, when we could just have cool mecha instead, smdh…
imagine wanting to be this
instead of this
anthro-pessimistic biopunk, not even once
looks to the left crippling pressure and acid atmosphere
looks to the right barren planet with toxic soil
well there’s still asteroids we literally have no idea how to mine and process rubble piles asteroids in zero gravity
Just do lasers at them. They either blow up and you drive over the loot or each shot of the laser magically teleports resources into your hold. It’s not that hard… to think about space
Just let people who are interested in tech talk about tech ffs.
It’s neither particularly pro-Marxist nor anti-Marxist.
Pick your battles. Let them talk.
