Hatchets
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| 03 May 2017 09:08 PM |
"Renowned physicist Hawking has warned that humanity needs to become a multi-planetary species within the next century in order to avoid extinction." - Newsweek
he predicts that by the next century all food on the planet will be devoid and even if it isnt, we would be extinct due to a super-virus of some sort.
do you agree? or is he a mad capitalist?
SMASH THAT 😂😂 MF LIKE BUTTON 😂 |
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| 03 May 2017 09:10 PM |
Within the next century is totally possible, the population is growing at exponential rates, and the world is very unstable as we speak
We could see the world start to fall apart within our own lifetimes
Why do you think basically every space agency out there is putting so much more focus on finding habitable exoplanets and stuff |
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| 03 May 2017 09:11 PM |
| this is why we need to colonize planets |
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| 03 May 2017 09:12 PM |
| to be honest if we colonize another planet we're just going to encounter the same problems we did on Earth |
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| 03 May 2017 09:13 PM |
we're going to mars dadd
Childhoods are nice. |
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| 03 May 2017 09:16 PM |
"to be honest if we colonize another planet we're just going to encounter the same problems we did on Earth"
Of course, but overpopulation and food shortage issues would be very drastically delayed if... say, we managed to colonize a planet 7 times the size of Earth or more (which they've found before), or 7 separate planets, like NASA announced about a month ago
And when that time comes, granted we're still alive and kicking, those problems will be easier to solve because we'll have experience
The first time around colonizing won't be easy. So many factors to consider
Effects of space on the body, efficient space travel, how to get everyone there in one piece, what to do when we land etc
It's going to be like the pilgrims landing in the new world but a hell of a lot harder |
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| 03 May 2017 09:18 PM |
I'd rather be dead than live in a future that relies on technological inventions.
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| 03 May 2017 09:21 PM |
"I'd rather be dead than live in a future that relies on technological inventions."
We've kinda been doing this since cavemen discovered fire
Agreed though, we're already seeing stuff like bio-implants and thought-to-speech tech being developed
I refuse to use it
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| 03 May 2017 09:25 PM |
Depictions of the future conducted by people honestly just scare me. I can't imagine how ridiculous the future would be if we'd have flying cars and technology-based workers.
The world would've been fine before what's considered the 'modern era' (2005+). A life without a challenge is not a life worth living.
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ramennnn
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| 03 May 2017 09:30 PM |
Hawking's always been off his rocker, I take everything he says with more than a few grains of salt.
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| 03 May 2017 09:34 PM |
The idea is that with technological innovation we can get rid of 'unnecessary' hard work which will lead to people doing what they want to do, but with that comes so many issues that we're not prepared for
Crap like flying cars are nothing but a pipe dream though, I don't see a jetsons-esque future in the near forecast
A ridiculous amount of change to infastructure across the globe would have to take place
We already have so many rules on flying airplanes and simple drones, highways in the skies definitely aren't happening |
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| 03 May 2017 09:37 PM |
honestly in 50 years the world will probably be the same just some newer-looking buildings, maybe more advanced cars, and new people.
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| 03 May 2017 09:39 PM |
to everyone saying mars,
why not solve the problems here instead of avoiding it
i know thats really easy to say, but its the truth |
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| 03 May 2017 09:41 PM |
"why not solve the problems here instead of avoiding it"
I'm not even joking, getting to the root of our issues would literally require killing more than 3/4ths of the planet, then enforcing population control |
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Hatchets
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| 03 May 2017 09:43 PM |
you cant really solve population growth, especially when its reaching unprecendented, exponential scales. unless you want to explore options of making our society a dystopia of some sort
SMASH THAT 😂😂 MF LIKE BUTTON 😂 |
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| 03 May 2017 09:50 PM |
| 1 child policy boi go full out china |
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| 03 May 2017 09:53 PM |
a 1 child policy really isn't a bad idea
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Hatchets
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| 03 May 2017 09:54 PM |
well were still living in a sort of baby boom era, especially with African Americans
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Chevon
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| 03 May 2017 09:55 PM |
| I can't deny that he has a lot of credibility, but this same thing has been said for centuries. |
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| 03 May 2017 09:56 PM |
| master its already happening lol in like 5 years bet theres gonna be a resource war |
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| 03 May 2017 09:58 PM |
There's another way >in theory< that could be done but it was in a book so idk if it could be done
Introduce a virus to the world that randomly activates and renders a percentage of people steril along with their descendents, then wipes itself out
Slow down population growth over time until it's at a manageable size
Again though, it's just from Dante's Inferno by Dan (what) Brown so I doubt it would ever work lol
Interesting idea though |
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| 03 May 2017 09:59 PM |
if we really wanna to become multi-planetary species sooner, we should provide space organizations more freedom and funding other than spending it on investigative military
(cough U.S cough NK)
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| 03 May 2017 10:01 PM |
"a 1 child policy really isn't a bad idea"
It's not for the good of the "collective", but then again, whenever one body of power has been given that kind of control, it's never ended well for anyone
Huge hit on individual rights, and once it's that far things can easily snowball
I do agree though with hatchets honestly, undeveloped countries in particular are creating way too many kids |
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ScaredAk
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| 03 May 2017 10:02 PM |
| it would be very hard to make it to a potentially habitable ######### - fuel - time - ########## costs and the most important of them all, think about the "potentially" in "potentially habitable" these planets may not be suitable for life, in the end, the slightest mistake could cost humanity a bunch but then, if we do plan on moving to mars, well, that's a different story it can be terraformed and we will ######## it in the future but ############ takes very long, millions-of-years-wise and it is not as big as the Earth, so moving billions of people to mars will prove difficult for it will be ########### just like india |
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