• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    Do you think physics and chemistry have changed in some significant way over the last thousand years?

    Yet somehow, YOU can see reality in a thousand years, and it matches the sci-fi mindrot you watched as a kid…

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      22 hours ago

      Yes? Not the principles behind them, but our understanding of them as a species.

      You’re a boring doomer who thinks humans will never find, create, or invent something we’ve never done before? Seriously? What kind of boring hill is that to die on?

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        22 hours ago

        Uh, it’s called “reality” my friend, try it.

        You can’t “invent” your way out of fundamental physical limits.

        A Boeing 747 looks the same in 1969 as it does today. It still flies over the Atlantic in six hours burning kerosene in turbofan engines.

        Sure, you can get a few percent here, a few percent there, but do you think suddenly we’ll have warp drive?

        Come on. Do you know how empty and huge space is?

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          21 hours ago

          Nope, you’re right. We know everything there is to ever know and nothing will ever change. We’ve peaked as a species, there is literally nowhere else to go from here.

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            20 hours ago

            Oh OK, the only logical counterpoint is we’re going to space.

            Wheeee!!! Dibs on Neptune!