Originally posted by Stoic
Are you sure that that isn't what you already do? I'd do that too, but also have lots of sex, and take up snowboarding. I've heard that it's a real rush when you're high on pot.
Hopefully you install durability enhancements because you will be crashing into trees and sliding off cliffs...without having a clear balance on your snowboard I might add.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
I would enlist in Starfleet and request a position on Deep Space Nine because of how low the Starfleet mortality rate seems to be relative to starships.
I know you're a stubborn hyper-realist and don't buy into all this as a reality.
You talk as if Star Trek is a joke, or other Sci Fi stories are jokes, but they're by scientists with doctorates most of them. The Space Opera Genre of Novels is filled with real, palpable, scientific principals. Nothing is beyond our grasp. It just may not work out exactly how they thought, however even more fanstastic than they could have imagined. For example, 19th century science fiction authors probably wouldn't have understood the internet, computer techonolgy, and the implications in how the world has been shaped so radically. They had theories about super advanced telegraphs that could commicate with Martians, not unmanned aerial assault crafts that raise bunkers and other well-fortified terrorist installations in the Middle East. A little over a century and warfare has been completely altered, the whole world has been reshaped recognition if you really think about it. This sort of radical change will accellerate beyond the scope of realist's beliefs.
Originally posted by Dolos
I know you're a stubborn hyper-realist and don't buy into all this as a reality.You talk as if Star Trek is a joke, or other Sci Fi stories are jokes, but they're by scientists with doctorates most of them. The Space Opera Genre of Novels is filled with real, palpable, scientific principals. Nothing is beyond our grasp. It just may not work out exactly how they thought, however even more fanstastic than they could have imagined. For example, 19th century science fiction authors probably wouldn't have understood the internet, computer techonolgy, and the implications in how the world has been shaped so radically. They had theories about super advanced telegraphs that could commicate with Martians, not unmanned aerial assault crafts that raise bunkers and other well-fortified terrorist installations in the Middle East. A little over a century and warfare has been completely altered, the whole world has been reshaped recognition if you really think about it. This sort of radical change will accellerate beyond the scope of realist's beliefs.
Second off, I actually like Star Trek. I'm currently watching the entirety of Deep Space Nine.
Third off, while some predictions are exceeded, others have failed to materialize. There were for instance many futurists and science fiction writers as late as the 1950s who took it for granted that we'd have permanent moon bases if not full-blown colonies by today.
Fourth off, check your spelling. Seriously, it's not that hard.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Lol, first off, calm down. I say one thing and you fly off the handle with some rambling retort about why I'm wrong about something I made no comment on.Second off, I actually like Star Trek. I'm currently watching the entirety of Deep Space Nine.
Third off, while some predictions are exceeded, others have failed to materialize. There were for instance many futurists and science fiction writers as late as the 1950s who took it for granted that we'd have permanent moon bases if not full-blown colonies by today.
Fourth off, check your spelling. Seriously, it's not that hard.
I'm not as worried about spelling as I am about word variety, vocabulary and an overall sense of grammatical correctness and mastery. Spellcheck is a crutch, like a calculator.
Predictions are based on a limited and innacurate understanding. Humans without intellectual and perceptual acceleration from AI will never have mathematical prescience based on the patterns inherent in recurring themes throughout human history, which would be quite simple to predict. By the time we have said augments the Singularity will have already taken away such predictability as the playing field will have finally changed, the future of what we will be will have undergone a transformation in complexity.
Morever, not having intsatallions on the moon is not the result of it being unpractical or beyond our current technology, it's a result of a lack of development and interest altogether. It's a human failure of social and political parameters that lead to technological stagnation in space exploration, not the other way around.
I think it is because we are by nature ignorant, stubborn, superstitious, and afraid of such things.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but powerful beyond measure."
Originally posted by Doloswhat patterns inherent in recurring themes throughout history are these? and how would they be simple to predict?Predictions are based on a limited and innacurate understanding. Humans without intellectual and perceptual acceleration from AI will never have mathematical prescience based on the patterns inherent in recurring themes throughout human history, which would be quite simple to predict. By the time we have said augments the Singularity will have already taken away such predictability as the playing field will have finally changed, the future of what we will be will have undergone a transformation in complexity.
Originally posted by 753
what patterns inherent in recurring themes throughout history are these? and how would they be simple to predict?
Canning the space program, NASA; as for a relevant prediction about the early 21st century made in the 1950s and even in the 60s by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke. I was speaking in relativistic terms for a post-human whose opted for microscopic implants that hold one human mind of information per nanometer.