/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15852987
>Will the human species live long enough to be able to colonize a different star system?
Of course not.

>>15852987
>Will the human species live long enough to be able to colonize a different star system?
Maybe.

>>15852987
I don't care. There is little chance that aging will be cured in my lifetime so my death within next 60 years is almost guaranteed. Why would I care what happens after I am dead?

>>15852996
I don't care that you don't care, I care and I want to know. Why are you coming in to a thread to announce you don't care?

>>15852987
>muh star trek soience fiction space travel fantasies that were placed into my imagination by the entertainment industry

https://web.archive.org/web/20060710015655/http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/justice/article.jsp?content=20050530_106573_106573

>The Star Trek connection

>A surprising number of child sex abusers appear to be Trekkies. Trying to figure out what that means, however, shows how little we really know about pedophiles

>The first thing detectives from the Toronto police sex crimes unit saw when they entered Roderick Cowan's apartment was an autographed picture of William Shatner. Along with the photos on the computer of Scott Faichnie, also busted for possessing child porn, they found a snapshot of the pediatric nurse and Boy Scout leader wearing a dress "Federation" uniform. Another suspect had a TV remote control shaped like a phaser. Yet another had a Star Trek credit card in his wallet. One was using "Picard" as his screen name. In the 3 1/2 years since police in Canada's biggest city established a special unit to tackle child pornography, investigators have been through so many dwellings packed with sci-fi books, DVDs, toys and collectibles like Klingon swords and sashes that it's become a dark squadroom joke. "We always say there are two types of pedophiles: Star Trek and Star Wars," says Det. Ian Lamond, the unit's second-in-command. "But it's mostly Star Trek."

I dunno, kind of just want dick growing pills that work
don't really care about all the space shit

>>15852997
You are dumb so you just don't understand. It's irrelevant what going to happen happen to the planet or humans 100 years later.

>>15852987
i don't think you can though.. not untill like a millions of years, you do realize the next star is 4 light years away? That a shit ton of distance, time, resource, energy to "colonize" the next star system. I know you're white and exploring and colonizing is in your blood but please take it down a notch, space is still unexplainable and very strange.

>>15852987
>Will the human species live long enough to be able to colonize a different star system?

Probably not, no. However, I do think it's probable that well colonize our own solar system to some extent. Even if that just means "work settlements", where people work & live off-world in 10-15 year shifts: extracting, processing, and shipping, resources & fuel that is then shipped back to Earth.

>Or will we just kill each other before then, either on the way there or just nuclear war or something else.

My bet is we'll just evolve ourselves extinct.
That we won't actually go extinct through a hot war, but that by the time we escape the solar system we'll have evolved and speciated into something that's about as different as we are from our CroMagnons predecessors.

>>15852987
Neither. Humanity will slowly devolve into a lower species. Kalahari bushmen are the prototypical future human.
Humanity won't extinct itself because it will lack the means to do so. Only nature will be able to make it happen.

>>15853101
Absolutely jewish and nose-pilled

>>15852987
Given our current state of civilization and environment, I'd say no. However, I can't predict the future.

>>15853403
>b-b-but we can look at planets and galaxies and assume everything about them just from looking at them!!!!!

>>15852987
There's plenty of time to kill ourselves off after we colonize another star system.

There could also be any number of alien species that could wipe us out too. (we don't know how to recognize them or see them)

>>15852987
lol no. Black people keep absorbing all of the resources. It's over for 99% of the planet

>>15853688
I literally only eat the worst parts of chicken fryed in worthless scam oil

>>15852987
Almost certainly. We see civilizations rise and fall due to the genetics of the population.
Those genetics change due to selection pressures.
Those pressures change due to the environment, which is modified by the complexity of civilization.

Low complexity naturally creates a eugenic environment provided you live in higher latitudes (warmer countries don't naturally tend towards a eugenic environment, hence places like Australia or most of Africa have remained undeveloped).
High complexity environments naturally tend to create dysgenic environments.

Populations exposed to low complexity envrionments (e.g. medieval europe) find their genetics improved. Eventually they increase the complexity of the civilization, make more advanced technology etc. The environment becomes dysgenic. The population's genetics are then made poor, eventually the complexity of that civilization can no longer be maintained, leaving the civilization susceptible to natural disaster or invasion by foreign populations.

The bright side to this, is that for each cycle we've had, a little bit of technology is left over from last time. So when we collapse in 300 years, the next civilization will likely keep some of our tech, using it a springboard to unlock more.

The only way we can stop this cycle entirely will be artificial selection, eugenics. This will probably only be possible using genetic engineering. Do we have time to develop a culture that accepts eugenics as a moral good? Do we have the time to develop reliable and effective gene therapies that improve desired traits compared to the parents? I hope so, but suspect it's too late for us.

In any case, I'm certain that God is with us, and in the following civilizations we will get it sorted, preventing the misery and death of dark age collapses.

>>15853522
The sort of statement an Indian or Asian would make. Pathetic and useless.

In short, yes. Certain discoveries hold a lot of potential.

>>15854126
Ion lazer technology is a good step forward.

>>15852987
There are already millions of humans living in other star systems as slaves and as cattle.

guys check the official /sci/ server
https://discord.gg/uDRjs5ku

>>15852987
>to colonize a different star system?
ye I'll chose a nice planet and build a comfy shack and wait billions of years for the life I seed around the planet, by pissing and shitting, to evolve into a fuckable woman

>>15852987
Just migrate outward to Europa or something

>>15854318
not comfy. interesting but not comfy

>>15854323
It will become comfy when the sun expands and fries off the inner planets.

>>15852987
Yeah but you'll have colony space stations before then at this rate.

>>15853003
Low IQ people can't resist the urge to make themselves feel smart by repeating the dumb lies they exposed themselves to by watching television.

>>15853579
fag what do you think then huh? shut the fuck up, that shit is far as fuck and takes a lot of time, there is a reason why we haven't seen any other life or weird shit going on for awhile. space is fucking big and empty, good fucking luck trying to be some space colonizer nigger you faggot.

>>15852987
I hope so, old Sol isn't going to last forever

>>15853432
The genes of predecessors to homo sapiens are in homo sapiens because of interbreeding. In that sense none of them have gone extinct, they were merely changed over time

>>15854720
So in the end it didn't matter? All of their genes are inside us and we're just the final byproduct of humanity? Is humanity over if we evolve into something else with mutt and hapa breeding?

it's stupid to try to prophecy the future, both of those futures are a possibility and we are all responsible for which of these futures we end up
if you want humans to survive have kids, and work on solving the existential problems we are facing

>>15854516
by the time this happens we could very well come up with a way to prevent it
humans will absolutely be able to control stars in the distant future, they could prevent supernovae from exploding e.g. by somehow removing material from the star