For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
If we're the only intelligent species that have ever existed, we've accomplished a lot already!
We've created the internet, split the atom, created pretty impressive ways of killing one another, and went to space!
We should keep exploring and learning and doing cool new things, of course, but if we cock it all up and die and there's no one else, I'd say we didn't fair that badly.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
And gamma ray bursts.
Which could basically happen whenever. Or at least, would happen faster than we could react.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
And gamma ray bursts.
Which could basically happen whenever. Or at least, would happen faster than we could react.
If a gamma ray burst hits us I would just see the brief blue light and shrug at the fact that we live in a random and cruel universe before utter oblivion
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Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
And gamma ray bursts.
Which could basically happen whenever. Or at least, would happen faster than we could react.
If a gamma ray burst hits us I would just see the brief blue light and shrug at the fact that we live in a random and cruel universe before utter oblivion
I always like to think about things like the Fermi paradox and the great filter because they are very interesting topics
But so many of the schools of thought around them are horrifying, to me
Ironically, I think my biggest fear is that maybe, we are somehow special
That one day, if we make it that far, we will be able to reach out and touch the stars. That the galaxy will be made available to us.
And we will discover that we are all alone.
By the time we're able to discover that, there will enough of us for that to not feel too lonely to me.
This is why I'm really interesting the the global population trends, because to expand out into the stars, and create a "human empire", you've really got to encourage people to have waaaay more kids than they do now, or you are generally capped at around 11 billion people.
Eh, people only having as few kids as they do now seems mostly an economic and cultural thing. If we wanted a serious colony on Mars or whatever, people would probably start having more kids on their own, and if you needed to you could always incentivize people to have more kids by giving them some sort of benefit for having a large family (outside the benefit having a large family in a colony situation brings already) until it becomes more normal.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
The first I'm very doubtful of, the second is scary but we can predict it and won't extinct us, and the third will change the world but making it uninhabitable is physically impossible
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
responsibility to who?
all the other people who don't exist?
life, the universe, and everything.
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TrippyJingMoses supposes his toeses are roses.But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered Userregular
Real planets are scary and unpredictable, let's build artificial planets and space stations.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
responsibility to who?
all the other people who don't exist?
life, the universe, and everything.
Universe don't care man
Universe don't give a FUCK
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
We're the Forerunners!
Twist!
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Another popular UFOlogy theory is that most (if not all) UFO sightings are government designed craft reverse engineered from a downed ET craft at Roswell. These theories typically tend to incorporate your other "big scary government" type things such as "black helicopters" and even "men in black."
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Tommy2Handswhat is this where am iRegistered Userregular
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
responsibility to who?
all the other people who don't exist?
life, the universe, and everything.
Universe don't care man
Universe don't give a FUCK
I miss the crystal chronicals era of gloss
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Another popular UFOlogy theory is that most (if not all) UFO sightings are government designed craft reverse engineered from a downed ET craft at Roswell. These theories typically tend to incorporate your other "big scary government" type things such as "black helicopters" and even "men in black."
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
We're the Forerunners!
Twist!
We get to go out into the empty cosmos, the precursor species to everything and proclaim to the vast emptiness.
...FIRST! LOL!
JebusUD on
I write you a story
But it loses its thread
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
The first I'm very doubtful of, the second is scary but we can predict it and won't extinct us, and the third will change the world but making it uninhabitable is physically impossible
I mean Area 51, the center of so many UFO stories, is a test site for experimental aircraft
I'd wager that a big portion of sightings are test aircraft but not even necessarily ones that are reverse engineered from anything
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Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
The first I'm very doubtful of, the second is scary but we can predict it and won't extinct us, and the third will change the world but making it uninhabitable is physically impossible
Underground coal fires are the theorized cause of the worst extinction event in the history of our planet in the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Another proposed cause? Runaway greenhouse effect.
Runaway greenhouse effect is why Venus is the way it is. Venus was our twin, roughly the same size with (theorized) oceans and two continents. As the sun got hotter kicked off a greenhouse effect that fed back on itself leading to the oceans eventually boiling away. And that's kind of the main point to emphasize, it wasn't the sun getting hotter that boiled the oceans, it was the greenhouse effect that that caused. It wouldn't be quick either.
When water vapor makes it into the atmosphere it traps more heat, leading to more water vapor, leading to more heat, and on and on until there just wasn't any ocean left to fuel it. Now, normal human activity isn't enough to kick off a runaway greenhouse effect without some concerted effort, but it does reduce the amount of heat from the sun to do this. The sun will be sending more heat our way as time goes on, and increasing the greenhouse effect just lessens the amount of time we have until it kicks off a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
So we need to develop methods to convert greenhouse gasses pretty fast.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
responsibility to who?
all the other people who don't exist?
To life as a concept. The only thing in the universe capable of understanding the universe.
You don't have to agree with the idea, but trying to put down the idea or stand in its way for no other reason than that you might disagree with the assessment just seems childish.
I say it's impossible in the sense that burning all known underground reserves of coal/oil would not be nearly enough to do that
It would take humanity as a species concerted effort to eliminate the limiting factors that keep it from being a perpetual heating machine
it will drastically change the biospheres and reduce biodiversity, but any time I hear people afraid Earth will become Venus I know they don't know what they are talking about. We will not become Venus until the sun gets hotter and we have bigger issues to deal with.
I say it's impossible in the sense that burning all known underground reserves of coal/oil would not be nearly enough to do that
It would take humanity as a species concerted effort to eliminate the limiting factors that keep it from being a perpetual heating machine
it will drastically change the biospheres and reduce biodiversity, but any time I hear people afraid Earth will become Venus I know they don't know what they are talking about. We will not become Venus until the sun gets hotter and we have bigger issues to deal with.
Did you read my comment? Because that's what I said.
For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
The first I'm very doubtful of, the second is scary but we can predict it and won't extinct us, and the third will change the world but making it uninhabitable is physically impossible
Underground coal fires are the theorized cause of the worst extinction event in the history of our planet in the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Another proposed cause? Runaway greenhouse effect.
Runaway greenhouse effect is why Venus is the way it is. Venus was our twin, roughly the same size with (theorized) oceans and two continents. As the sun got hotter kicked off a greenhouse effect that fed back on itself leading to the oceans eventually boiling away. And that's kind of the main point to emphasize, it wasn't the sun getting hotter that boiled the oceans, it was the greenhouse effect that that caused. It wouldn't be quick either.
When water vapor makes it into the atmosphere it traps more heat, leading to more water vapor, leading to more heat, and on and on until there just wasn't any ocean left to fuel it. Now, normal human activity isn't enough to kick off a runaway greenhouse effect without some concerted effort, but it does reduce the amount of heat from the sun to do this. The sun will be sending more heat our way as time goes on, and increasing the greenhouse effect just lessens the amount of time we have until it kicks off a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
We need to figure out sending unmanned probes beneath the ice crusts of some of these objects in our solar system. I'll eat my hat if there's no life in a 62 mile deep ocean.
Maybe we haven't been contacted by alien civilizations because faster-than-light travel and communication really are impossible. Now that would be depressing.
FTL travel is basically a pipe dream, barring some bizarre invention that changes the way particles are held together. Anything that moves at anything >1.0C will lose its covalent bonds and just become less than dust.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Wormholes! It's worked for the Federation (and the Dominion I suppose) and Mathew McCaunahaighegh and the Event Horizon.
Wormholes! It's worked for the Federation (and the Dominion I suppose) and Mathew McCaunahaighegh and the Event Horizon.
Well... less so for that last one.
Yeah, if wormholes ever cause us to go to a literal pain dimension as a possible side effect, I think I'll just stay on this shitty marble, boiled oceans and Draculas and all.
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For me, it's the burden it places on us, that we're the only species around capable of understanding, well, the universe. That if we do wipe ourselves out, the that's it, all done, nobody left to do any study or research, no more science.
It's not that I think there's a burden because we're so great, like we're owed anything as a species, but if we're all there ever will be that's like us, out of all this infinite possibility, then... I don't know, that feels like a big responsibility.
Man.
We've created the internet, split the atom, created pretty impressive ways of killing one another, and went to space!
We should keep exploring and learning and doing cool new things, of course, but if we cock it all up and die and there's no one else, I'd say we didn't fair that badly.
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I guess?
I feel we really overestimate our self-genocidal capacity. The only hard limits we know of are asteroid impacts and the sun expanding. Both of which we know won't happen for a good while.
And gamma ray bursts.
Which could basically happen whenever. Or at least, would happen faster than we could react.
If a gamma ray burst hits us I would just see the brief blue light and shrug at the fact that we live in a random and cruel universe before utter oblivion
Yeah
That's scary.
Eh, people only having as few kids as they do now seems mostly an economic and cultural thing. If we wanted a serious colony on Mars or whatever, people would probably start having more kids on their own, and if you needed to you could always incentivize people to have more kids by giving them some sort of benefit for having a large family (outside the benefit having a large family in a colony situation brings already) until it becomes more normal.
Asteroid impacts just have good marketing, there's also global coal fires, eruption of megavolcanoes, and runaway greenhouse effect.
The first I'm very doubtful of, the second is scary but we can predict it and won't extinct us, and the third will change the world but making it uninhabitable is physically impossible
ask the military
responsibility to who?
all the other people who don't exist?
http://www.audioentropy.com/
life, the universe, and everything.
build some ring worlds and some shkadov thrusters, hell yeah
Universe don't care man
Universe don't give a FUCK
We're the Forerunners!
Twist!
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Pfffffft, like they know
Another popular UFOlogy theory is that most (if not all) UFO sightings are government designed craft reverse engineered from a downed ET craft at Roswell. These theories typically tend to incorporate your other "big scary government" type things such as "black helicopters" and even "men in black."
I miss the crystal chronicals era of gloss
the levels of Occam in this
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
We get to go out into the empty cosmos, the precursor species to everything and proclaim to the vast emptiness.
...FIRST! LOL!
But it loses its thread
Look up runaway greenhouse effect and "Venus."
I'd wager that a big portion of sightings are test aircraft but not even necessarily ones that are reverse engineered from anything
Underground coal fires are the theorized cause of the worst extinction event in the history of our planet in the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Another proposed cause? Runaway greenhouse effect.
Runaway greenhouse effect is why Venus is the way it is. Venus was our twin, roughly the same size with (theorized) oceans and two continents. As the sun got hotter kicked off a greenhouse effect that fed back on itself leading to the oceans eventually boiling away. And that's kind of the main point to emphasize, it wasn't the sun getting hotter that boiled the oceans, it was the greenhouse effect that that caused. It wouldn't be quick either.
When water vapor makes it into the atmosphere it traps more heat, leading to more water vapor, leading to more heat, and on and on until there just wasn't any ocean left to fuel it. Now, normal human activity isn't enough to kick off a runaway greenhouse effect without some concerted effort, but it does reduce the amount of heat from the sun to do this. The sun will be sending more heat our way as time goes on, and increasing the greenhouse effect just lessens the amount of time we have until it kicks off a runaway greenhouse effect.
At that point it's just easier to utilize existing planets. You'll need to do that anyways when you start harvesting them for materials.
We're alone. We bombed the last alien in aught' nine.
To life as a concept. The only thing in the universe capable of understanding the universe.
You don't have to agree with the idea, but trying to put down the idea or stand in its way for no other reason than that you might disagree with the assessment just seems childish.
It would take humanity as a species concerted effort to eliminate the limiting factors that keep it from being a perpetual heating machine
it will drastically change the biospheres and reduce biodiversity, but any time I hear people afraid Earth will become Venus I know they don't know what they are talking about. We will not become Venus until the sun gets hotter and we have bigger issues to deal with.
Did you read my comment? Because that's what I said.
We need to figure out sending unmanned probes beneath the ice crusts of some of these objects in our solar system. I'll eat my hat if there's no life in a 62 mile deep ocean.
FTL travel is basically a pipe dream, barring some bizarre invention that changes the way particles are held together. Anything that moves at anything >1.0C will lose its covalent bonds and just become less than dust.
Well... less so for that last one.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
Yeah, if wormholes ever cause us to go to a literal pain dimension as a possible side effect, I think I'll just stay on this shitty marble, boiled oceans and Draculas and all.
okay then, First stop Europa.
This.
Remember that time we were told we could eat from any tree we wanted, except this one particular one?
Yeah
yeah
We've got enough Europeans.
You're a peein'
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Fine. I always preferred Callisto and Ganymede anyways.
Goshdangit, I'm still mad about this.
We could have lived without pants, but no.