No I totally agree. We’re maxed out on inventions. There will never be any further developments in the present or future. We’ve hit peak when it comes to science and space. It just makes sense.
People always say it cant be done until people do it. I know mankind has only scraped the surface of discoveries. I highly doubt all the knowledge in the public eye is as far as humans have discovered as a whole.
How well versed are you in relativity and quantum mechanics? Certainly some discovery or invention can lead to a paradigm shift but intergalactic travel for the human species is a very far off proposition.
We are far from being maxed out on our scientific knowledge. However, there are hard limits on what we can do. FTL travel, for instance, is a work of pure fiction and will remain so unless we hit a honeypot of scientific discovery. And as such, communication via FTL methods is in the same boat.
For some reason I have doubts that sherdog has the credentials to make that bold of an assumption. Even with the combined knowledge on relativity and quantum mechanics.
Nothing is impossible. Technologies like AI or quantum computers can help make a revolutionary discovery. What is the probability though?
You're making assumptions on future technology using current developments. It's like having smoke signal technology commenting on high frequency radio.
It's not an ego thing. And since you still haven't claimed to understand the physics behind the difficulties of deep space travel I'm going to presume you don't. Compare it to discovering a way to light up a house just using the power of your thoughts alone. Will it be possible at some point in the future? Maybe. Is it realistic to suggest that cavemen needed fire for light, and now we use electricity, so at some point we'll be able to summon light with our thoughts? No.
Another agree to disagree. I think you are right on the mark with future capabilities being able to light rooms with their thoughts and electricity will be thought of as old technology like cavemen and fire.
At the speed of light it's 12 years away but if we wanted to send a ship instead it would take around 50,000 years.
We'll be merged with machines by the end of the 21st century. Machines don't age. So time isn't a barrier to space travel for them/us. That was easy.
How well versed are you in relativity and quantum mechanics? Certainly some discovery or invention can lead to a paradigm shift but intergalactic travel for the human species is a very far off proposition.
I think it's more a budget thing. We spent the equivalent of $2 trillion 2020 dollars on the manhattan project in 1945. If we spent that kind of money on breakthrough scientific shit today, it'd get done in no time. Imagine a $2 trillion general AI research project. That would get it done in no time. A perfect example is the original Project Orion. It was meeting and exceeding all its milestones and deadlines. Would have had men on Mars in the early 1970s and into the outer solar system by the early 1980s. We'd have launched manned interstellar missions to the nearest star system by now. And who knows what unforeseen discoveries that kind of research would have led to. Cancelled for budget reasons after the defense/ space budget became controversial around Apollo and during the Vietnam War. Now we couldn't even launch a man into orbit until like 2 years ago.
Make room on your mantel to display that Nobel next year.
