/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3239869]

Mankind will never achieve inter-stellar space travel in your life-time.

how does it make you feel /sci/?

[Anonymous No.3239874]

How do you think it makes me feel?

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3239879]

they might, you dont know how long i will live. what if immortality or age reversal is researched during my natural lifetime? i will live far longer, and i might eventually live to see this.

[Anonymous No.3239880]

[Anonymous No.3239899]

>>3239879
False hope.

no sane scientist will ever research into immortality or age reversal without first considering the implications of such a thing on the world, and having considered that, he will know that immortality will only make things worse. at best they will work on slowing aging.

[EK !EKFQQAJWYU No.3239912]

I was also born too late to late to hunt niggers without any ramifications.

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3239913]

>>3239912
lol'd

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3239916]

>>3239899
orly?
http://www.manhattanbeachproject.com/

[Anonymous No.3239924]

>>3239916
didnt read, but from a quick look it seems like they are only slowing aging, not stopping it altogether. this is a lesser problem.

what would be a problem is stopping is altogether, the social and economical strain, let alone the global strain on limited resources and living space, would cause Mankind to fall apart - unless a solution will be found.

[Anonymous No.3239934]

>>3239924

Solution here:

>>3239912

[EK !EKFQQAJWYU No.3239953]

>>3239924
I believe actuarial escape velocity is only hypothetical. I'm not sure but I don't think we can be certain that it will ever come to that.

[Anonymous No.3239954]

>>3239934
Only delaying the problem. as long as people wont die, but keep breeding you will eventually get too much people living on the planet.

[EK !EKFQQAJWYU No.3239971]

>>3239954
>too much people living on the planet

I believe with the prospect of people living indefinitely, you can bank on near limitless into space. Technological advances in energy production would coincide with actuarial escape velocity and afterwards, it would become even more rapid as people wouldn't be ending their research prematurely due to retirement or death.

[Anonymous No.3239978]

>>3239899
yet scientist invented the atomic bomb.

[Anonymous No.3239989]

>>3239978
and win the nobel prize for inventing the atomic bomb

[Anonymous No.3239994]

>>3239879
If very well may be reached during your lifetime, this doesn't mean that you will be allowed access to the technology.

The vast majority of the human race will not be able to access this kind of technology when it is pioneered, if it hasn't been already. The fact that you are so shortsighted that you equate "this technology existing" to "having access to and being allowed to use" the stuff is a strong indicator that you would be one of the proles denied it.

If significant life extension is achieved, the governments of the world and the wealthy elite are not going to willingly hand it over the general population. At best you will hear about a lucky few achieving these long lifespans as you age and die.

[Anonymous No.3240011]

>>3239978
And prevented hundreds of millions of people from dying from total and perpetual war ever since the first couple were dropped

[Anonymous No.3240012]

>>3239971
this might be the way mankind will progress, but heres how I see it:

more people will cause a bigger strain on the global economy, causing a bigger rift between rich and poor which will only grow over time. later, as population growing even more mankind mush push to new lands - more lands and being converted to residential areas, aswell as industry for to supply the growing demand and commercial areas to sell the increased merchandise.

at some point theres no more land - forcing humanity to adapt or die.

now, if you consider the amount of researcher to general population in the entire world you will see that theres a bigger chance for mankind to die rather then adapt.

Another possible problem is - as this sir said

>>3239994

governments will doubtfully give the poor, or even the middle class, access to such things. this will probably cause outrage and even outright rebellion by the lower classes which might bring mankind to its kneels. or force the government to make everybody immortal which only worsens the problem in the long run.

[Anonymous No.3240023]

Oh fuck not this again ?

> In 1000 years, in the Centauri-earth shuttle
" Ooooh I'm so sad we will never achieve intergalactic travel in my lifetime"

Don't you people realize how scientifically AWESOME is today ? We are studying the atmospheres of exoplanets for fuck's sake ! We built devices hotter than the sun, colder than the universe itself ! We were in a cave and we just took a look outside, we are in the greatest discovery age of History ! Pic fucking related !

[Anonymous No.3240045]

>>3240023
>colder than the universe itself !
wat? I seriously doubt the sun part, but maybe its possible but below absolute zero? bullshit.

and yeah, we might live in an epic time of discover, but god damn it! I want my warp drive! I was to fly across Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. I want to land on Charon, I want to see a binary star system and the milky way from outsite, and visit other galaxies

And I dont want to stop there... theres still parallel universes to explore

I want to see everything that can be seen, and be everywhere where one can be. I want to push everything to the limit.

[Anonymous No.3240069]

>>3240045
Since when is the universe at 0K ?

[Anonymous No.3240174]

>>3240045
>I seriously doubt the sun part
Well, then you're wrong.

>but below absolute zero? bullshit.
Show me one place in the universe where the temperature is 0 K.

[Anonymous No.3240203]

>>3240045
The cosmic background radiation is a blackbody radiation corresponding to 2.725K. Human laboratories are the only place in the solar system where you can find something at 0.01K.

[Anonymous No.3240213]

The first human-made interstellar probe was launched in september 5. 1977 you slowpoke.

[Anonymous No.3240215]

>>3240174
interstellar space.

between galaxies.

between any two sufficiently far suns.

[Anonymous No.3240218]

>[wiki] In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500,000 km/h (over 300,000 mph) for the last 1,500 years. This has cooled it down to approximately 1 K, as deduced by astronomical observation, which is the lowest natural temperature ever recorded

[Anonymous No.3240224]

>>3240215

No sir, an object left in interstellar void radiates its heat and exchange radiation with the cosmic background radiation. The lowest limit is 2.725K

[Anonymous No.3240307]

>>3239879
This, there was a very cool TED talk about this. The guy basically made the argument that it is not for scientists to decide how their discoveries are used, but if we can stop the aging process, then we should try. He went on to say that it's very likely that the first immortals are alive today. Basically, if you live long enough for modern science to extend your life by say , 50 years, then you are also increasing your chances of being alive when modern medicine can keep you alive for 200 hundred years, and so on and so forth.