30 Jun 02:42
--I love old sci fi. It was Way more speculative. Nowadays its all more grounded in reality...even if the tech isn't. Kinda dull
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30 Jun 02:40
--Humans find ways to extend life as well, but it doesn't make you immortal, 'cause sooner or later you'll be killed in an accident or something
30 Jun 02:40
--Old SF, humans discover antigravity drives and use them to launch whole Earth cities into space and wonder the cosmos
30 Jun 02:39
--what happens to immortality then? This was pointed out in James Blish's Cities in Flight, great books
30 Jun 02:38
--Yeah you could sit on earth, with no means of getting off it when civilisation collapses around you lol
30 Jun 02:37
--I think a lot of people would choose that curse over death if given the choice though
30 Jun 02:35
--Or maybe our brains just die and that's it, though of course nobody wants to think about that too long
30 Jun 02:35
--Probably a good idea to start with a clean slate if reincarnation is a thing
30 Jun 02:34
--We'll all be dead most likely long before you find out, so yeah get used to dem movies and holovids :)
30 Jun 02:34
--Maybe in twenty years we'll have a quantum theory of gravity, and it will prove stable wormholes can't exist. No amount of cleverness will make them then.
30 Jun 02:33
--I think it is something people forget–it's not how clever we are that will determine if we have wormhole gates, it will be if the universe works in a way that allows them to happen.
30 Jun 02:33
--But of course the universe has no compunction to work the way the model says it does.
30 Jun 02:32
--Definitely not pulled Entirely out of their ass....but mostly. We'll call it intuition haha
30 Jun 02:32
--But who knows? Maybe in a thousand years there WILL be an interconnected system of wormhole gates. Not likely, but I'm more than willing to read stories about it. XD