I could not agree more
Do you ever cry regarding Star Trek?
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Considering we cannot handle dealing decently with other humans with different skin tones, accents, hair textures, eye lid shapes or different chromosomes even if we moved to Mars it will not be a Kumbaya moment for humanity.
My message for April 5th 2063 is move along Vulcans nothing to see here!
Mmmm maybe I should cry about that???
My message for April 5th 2063 is move along Vulcans nothing to see here!
Mmmm maybe I should cry about that???
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What if warp travel proves impossible and we'll eventually become an interstellar species but by slow hibernation ships at 1% lightspeed max, every interstellar colony ship being a one way ticket, and there being some slow radio communications between colonies in the stellar neighbourhood at best, but never even be able to keep a global current picture on how far 'we' really have advanced into the galaxy?
I remember one scifi book which had decided to have different nationalalities and cultures colonise the galaxy by culture. There was a Scottish planet for example. I don't recall much more about it though
'We' wouldn't be a single civlisation, just as Aztecs and Europeans were separate throughout history.
HomoSapiens would likely still be a single species - especially for the first few thousand years.
I saw a film that featured a similar concept. It didn't work out too well for the crew of the ship which I think was called Nostromo...
I don't cry when it comes to TV series or other entertaintment. These days I don't even remember when was the last time I really cried. Like really cried, moist eyes don't count? Maybe it has something to do with age? 40 in a few years....
However the last time the floodgates really opened was about television. From my childhood favourite series Zorro actress Patricia Martinez had passed away and I got the news. I can't explain it, I just cried and cried. What was that? On some level I loved her? She might have been the most beautiful woman ever.
However the last time the floodgates really opened was about television. From my childhood favourite series Zorro actress Patricia Martinez had passed away and I got the news. I can't explain it, I just cried and cried. What was that? On some level I loved her? She might have been the most beautiful woman ever.
Humanity: capable of great good and great evil.
I'm afraid I agree with you. When I was younger I was so optimistic and believed maybe we could eventually evolve into a better species. But now, I'm very jaded about everything. About nothing ever changing in in this messed up world. And that makes me want to cry.
There is a lot more good out there than is reported on the news.
Neither does bad. Another 35 people killed on U.K. roads last week, you don’t see that in the news.
Progress never really stalled, I think. It has just been in less visible areas, and in less spectacular feats. But in that half century, our technology has improved significantly. Better computers, better material science. Access to space has become so cheap (relatively speaking, of course) that it's getting into reach of larger private companies (such as spaceX), where 50 years ago only the two largest nations on earth could really do it, with a massively inflated budget for prestige reasons.
SpaceX are making access to space cheap. Before that it was private companies that were providing access to space (Boeing etc), just not at an affordable price
SpaceX have only managed to get the price down due to advances, mainly in computing.
Indeed, yes. The exponential growth of technology is one that is largely going unseen because the developments are improvements in the efficiency of tech, rather than huge changes. I think Starlink could potentially be another huge leap, but tech wise what is being shown is great accessibility to more and more people.
If Star Trek is moving it is because it relates to something in real life, i.e. crying over George Kirk's death during his son's birth in 09. I became a father than same year. But, yes, the real world, by and large, is far more interesting, far more emotionally satisfying, than fictional franchises.
