/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3175610
>"keep researching, bro, but to be honest I don't think we're gonna live forever."
We are not going to live forever, but it seems as we will live past 200 at least.

>>2995898
I would.

Overpopulation is not a problem as long we have the technology to sustain the Earth's biosphere and distribute resources to everyone efficiently. Unfortunately we have the technology, it's just not being implemented. Oh well, necessity will bring it about.
This is ignoring any space-related advancements, such as the automated and speedy construction of huge O'Neill cylinders some time in the next 150 years.

Hold your heads high, the future awaits.

There are over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. There are probably over 50 billion galaxies with up to a trillion stars each in just the OBSERVABLE universe.

Everything you've ever touched or seen on Earth was once hydrogen that was fused at millions of degrees under inconceivable pressure by stars fusing into heavier elements just from their own mass. You stepped out of a supernova.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sc83euAhFk

The universe is incredibly abundant with the organic molecules that made life possible to arise on early Earth. Currently from Kepler's observational data scientists predict the Milky Way is stuffed with as many as 50 BILLION alien worlds, 500 million of those being in the habitable zones around their star.

http://news.discovery.com/space/milky-way-stuffed-with-50-billion-alien-worlds.html

>>2924241
>>2924249
Reposting from an earlier thread;

The technology:
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/06/spacexs-falcon-heavy-most-powerful-private-rocket-ever/
http://www.universetoday.com/73536/nasa-considering-rail-gun-launch-system-to-the-stars/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4799369.ece

The will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/lord-british-wants-to-take-you-to-space-and-hes-closer-th
an-you-think.ars/3

The time (and one of the main kicks in the ass to get it started):
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

The economic benefits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

>>2894960
It begins. I'm also going to perhaps try some way of seriously decreasing the money required to go into space via a company startup.

>>2863766
You see a new and glorious dawn. You see in those videos a condensation of everything you consider great, which could possibly turn the world into a scientific utopia.

Or something like that.

>my face when i'll still be able to live tens of billions of years
I think i'm okay with this, at least for now.

Wonders of the Solar System
Life - David Attenborough
Also your pic related

>>2800055
Damn straight. But I'm gonna try my hardest to make it happen. Idealism to realism.

Remember when /sci/ wasn't complete shit?

pic related, there used to be less Sagan haters