30 Jun 02:40

Mechanizoid

Sounds kind of dumb put like that, but he makes it work in the stories

30 Jun 02:40

Mechanizoid

Old SF, humans discover antigravity drives and use them to launch whole Earth cities into space and wonder the cosmos

30 Jun 02:39

Amit Dutta

Haven't read them

30 Jun 02:39

Mechanizoid

what happens to immortality then? This was pointed out in James Blish's Cities in Flight, great books

30 Jun 02:38

Mechanizoid

also, even the universe is probably not eternal

30 Jun 02:38

Amit Dutta

Yeah you could sit on earth, with no means of getting off it when civilisation collapses around you lol

30 Jun 02:38

Mechanizoid

I don't believe true immortality is possible

30 Jun 02:38

Mechanizoid

but that is more out of sheer curiousity over what the future will bring

30 Jun 02:38

Amit Dutta

But you're right the idea sounds appealing

30 Jun 02:38

Mechanizoid

I'd be tempted, 'cause I could watch the stars burn out then

30 Jun 02:37

Amit Dutta

I wouldn't

30 Jun 02:37

Mechanizoid

I think a lot of people would choose that curse over death if given the choice though

30 Jun 02:37

Amit Dutta

Basing some writing on that idea

30 Jun 02:37

Mechanizoid

Interesting concept

30 Jun 02:37

Amit Dutta

A punishment

30 Jun 02:36

Amit Dutta

I believe immortality would actually be a curse

30 Jun 02:36

Mechanizoid

Guess it beats eternal punishment in hell for your sins, lol

30 Jun 02:35

Amit Dutta

I have no issue with my mortality at all

30 Jun 02:35

Mechanizoid

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

Mechanizoid

Probably a good idea to start with a clean slate if reincarnation is a thing

30 Jun 02:34

Amit Dutta

I'd rather not :)

30 Jun 02:34

Mechanizoid

But then we won't remember anyway. XD

30 Jun 02:34

Mechanizoid

True, unless we reincarnate or something LOL

30 Jun 02:34

Amit Dutta

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

Mechanizoid

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

Mechanizoid

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

Mechanizoid

But of course the universe has no compunction to work the way the model says it does.

30 Jun 02:32

Amit Dutta

Definitely not pulled Entirely out of their ass....but mostly. We'll call it intuition haha

30 Jun 02:32

Mechanizoid

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

30 Jun 02:32

Amit Dutta

Sure

30 Jun 02:32

Mechanizoid

Yeah, but with just a LITTLE more grounding than just saying "uhh, hyperspace drive". XD

30 Jun 02:31

Amit Dutta

It is basically just making up models that might expand on existing models using criteria with no real evidence behind it...just pure math and a smattering of assumptions. Ie speculation. Actually a lot like string theory and M theory today. You could call those speculative fiction almost