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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
Nah.
It would be infinitely better to go live in a box in your back yard for several years. At least that way you avoid the chronic health issues arising from "living off world".
Even with a lot of yet-to-be-theorised physics, I just cant see the motivation for humans to leave earth in significant numbers.
IMO space will be populated almost exclusively by machines.
I suppose my time as a submariner may skew my view of life out there some.
Actually I'm interested to hear your perspective because I have no experience of anything like that.
I just feel like star trek has romanticised space exploration to the point where most people can't conceptualise the hardships that would be involved.
Just as an example, on the ISS, just outside earth's atmosphere, ive heard that the air smells putrid. Astronauts just deal with it because they're passionate about the project.
I guess my pessimistic view is that "life on Mars" would basically be very similar to life on a submarine but with no ports or shore leave or furlough.
It will definitely not be a walk in the park, but the newest ships and landers as well as the tech is so much more than I had on the USS Ohio. The longest we went underwater was 3 months. It definitely wears on you, but you work so much that exhaustion keeps you from any serious cabin fever. This is also helped along by the fact that we keep the oxygen percentage on the sub a little lower than surface air to lower the risk of fires.
To me, the biggest challenge won't be comfort, necessarily, but zero Gs and being able to hold off the deterioration of the body in hypotension. Humans can live in some pretty shitty conditions and space will necessitate them for now, but having the best view money can buy probably helps morale some.
I think that humanity is on the cusp of its next big jump into a new era. The old ways of doing things are no longer working, and new paths to the future will have to be charted. We are still very much in the veery early days of space colonization, kind of like the build up to the mercury program back in the 50s.
Tech is advancing so rapidly that even at 30, I've seen some technology I couldn't even dream of being real is now just in everyday use, so I remain hopeful about humans in space. Our drive to discover is so ingrained in to what we are that I see it as inevitable (if we don't destroy ourselves first) It is a compulsion that spread our species to the farthest reaches of our world and I have no reason to believe our world would be the last boundary.
Maybe that's the end use for AI.
Edit: i think of space as like this infinite ocean depth. There is eventually gonna be like this massive pocket of new world down there, but until there is, there just isn't any reason to go ourselves unless you're one of those types of people.
I'd also like to invoke the cautions of 2001 Space Odyssey as food for thought
Thats kinda of my point though, im predicting that there will never be a new world, either under the ocean or "off world".
Its a fascinating concept, and I do love sci fi, but in reality it just doesn't seem plausible.