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0000GKP t1_j5359of wrote

>humans will be so advanced that we will be travelling to & living on other worlds & possibly we finally encounter intelligent alien life somewhere.

When we finally make it to other worlds, we will be the alien life, not them.

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Greedy-Creme-995 t1_j535j5w wrote

I like to think that the future is unpredictable. We don’t know what will happen in a year, or 10 years or 50 years. Who knows how long we will be able to live (or have consciousness) with new technologies? And who knows what will happen in the future that will allow us new capabilities in terms of space travel?

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Obnoxiousjimmyjames t1_j535v2f wrote

How are you so confident?
I assure you, we’re are being watched by otherworldly beings and they will make their presence known on their terms.

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CBeisbol t1_j535vpz wrote

Yes

I was born a bit too early to have any chance of being the first human on another planet

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JamesWjRose t1_j535yj2 wrote

Yes. Unless it happens soon I am likely to miss The Most Important Moment in human history. It will change EVERYTHING about our lives, in ways we cannot even imagine.

Still maybe it will happen in the near future... it's always possible

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PoppersOfCorn t1_j5366qb wrote

If we get to that stage, we will no longer just be a single human race. We will have evolved to the needs of our environments. We will be a link in the chain of evolution

But no, it doesn't bother me at all. We are alive for the birth of the technology age, and that is amazing

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t_lou t1_j536hkf wrote

No. I wasn't alive when a lot of things happened, and I won't be alive when a bunch of other hopefully cool stuff happens. And I don't believe enough in my own exceptionalism to think that I'd get to experience it in any more positive way than looking on from an increasingly dirty Earth and thinking, 'Wow that's cool!' I already get to do that.

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BeepBlipBlapBloop t1_j536vlg wrote

Have you ever been on an airplane? If so, you've seen the world in a way that most humans who have ever lived could only dream of.

In the future you're describing people will feel the same way about missing out because what you see as fantastic right now, they will see as mundane.

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MichioBu t1_j536wi5 wrote

Yes, it bothers me. There are many cosmology mysteries that bother me, because a lack of answer means I can't answer philosophical questions that are important for me.

The existence of alien life is just another thing having philosophical implications for me.

We don't need to travel to other planets to discover alien life. Technology is already advanced enough to discover it. For example, the JWST can detect biosignatures. The HaBex can directly image exoplanets and their surface, so we can see if there are animals and vegetation.

I believe we are close to discover alien life if it exists. Technology is already advanced and is about to reach a tipping point. If the Artemis mission is successful, this will start another space race that will accelerate progress in space exploration.

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c0ntr0ll3dsubstance t1_j536yur wrote

We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy.

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I-am-ocean t1_j5376id wrote

A catastrophic solar flare will happen before that happens

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throwaway4abetterday t1_j5378ft wrote

Yes we will. Life extension technology is really coming along, NASA is finally moving forward with its Artemis program and we, ourselves, can band together to fund the construction of whatever is needed to start human expansion into space now, in our time.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is late 70's, early 80's, even with shit food, but if you start eating clean, exercise and quit smoking, you can easily add at least another 5-7 years to your life. If you're in your 30's, you have another 45-50 years to see really cool shit come along, and even to make it happen.

We can go online and learn the maths and physics necessary to start planning and building a lot of this shit, too. We have more resources at our disposal now than we ever did before. We just have to get started, that's all.

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courtanee t1_j5379n1 wrote

I'm just grateful I was born in an age where I can vote and don't need a husband to open a bank account... I shudder to think about it.

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Darth_Jad3r t1_j537d0j wrote

George Washington didn’t know about dinosaurs and he was the first president. I think we’ll be iiiight

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m444n1 t1_j537eaq wrote

I don’t think any of this will happen. Infact i think we’re living in the peak of technology. You must’ve heard the saying what goes up must come down. Humanity will reach a breaking point at some point. There’s a big possibility we could go back to stone age because of nuclear warfare. I could be wrong though just stating my opinion.

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yeet_god69420 t1_j537gzx wrote

I’m hoping that technology will be advanced enough by the time im older for me to preserve my brain until it can be placed in an android body

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wiriux t1_j537h4m wrote

In a way yeah. I wish I had been born in the year 100,000 for example. If earth is still around or we would have colonized other planets….imagine all the cool shit that we will have discovered/invented in the year 100,000!!!

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verifiedboomer t1_j537jgg wrote

When I was young, I thought I would see these things happen in my lifetime.

Now that I am 60, I am pretty sure I won't.

It bothers me less and less, though. Everyone has to come to grips with the fact that they experience the universe during a short window of time. I also am more aware of humanity's historical context. There have been over 10000 years of human civilization and culture around the world, and I have seen only 60 years of it; there is so much I have already missed and will never know, so why worry about the future stuff that I won't know about either?

That historical context also strongly suggests that our technological civilization is more fragile than we realize, and I'm OK with that. If this bothers you, then I suggest reading "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart, which chronicles human civilization on Earth after a pandemic wipes out most humans. I first read this almost 50 years ago, and the lessons are as relevant today as they were then.

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PandaEven3982 t1_j537ki7 wrote

I keep yelling out "upload me!" On the off chance that someone who can is watching and bored.

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Accomplished_Mud1824 t1_j537paw wrote

Yes I lose sleep over it every night. Sometimes I peer out my window at night and ask them to take me or when I’m taking my dog out at night, I stare at Sirius then Mars and just try to will an abduction. It never works. I am still here on Earth and will remain here forever.

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chthulyeo t1_j537x0p wrote

I won't be alive but my mind will be transfered to a data center and uploaded to a new body.

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Klondike2022 t1_j537y1a wrote

How do you know aliens haven’t been discovered?

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fairweatherfixd t1_j538cnb wrote

Yeah but I'm sure I'll see a lot of other cool shit during my lifetime

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Paddlesons t1_j538hu5 wrote

It used to but as I've gotten older I've come to realize that humanity will only disappoint me when it comes to things of great magnitude.

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LawsKnowTomCullen t1_j538ncv wrote

I honestly don't think we will ever leave our solar system. Not because it's not plausible, but because humanity will surely kill itself off by then.

I'd be happy to see the beginnings of a legitimate Moon base with at least a few hundred people coming and going on a regular basis.

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Ok-Cat-4975 t1_j538ob3 wrote

It was 66 years from the Wright brothers first flight to the moon landing. I think we have the capacity but not the will currently.

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subway_ratkeeper t1_j538p8p wrote

Not really. I think a lot of bad shit will happen before we even reach that stage, and what's to say I'd be happy living in that future society?

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Bogmanbob t1_j538uh0 wrote

I'm alive when we've entered space. I'm alive when I can go to most any place on earth I choose. I'm alive when I don't need to fear starving or security (much). I'm not sad about missing something that may never happen.

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Riledcat t1_j539e3r wrote

You could always get a job as a pizza delivery guy, and hope for a delivery to a cryopreservation company.

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dask1 t1_j53a24c wrote

no worries you wont miss a thing, we will destroy ourselves like every alien civilization did...
the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years, our ancestors have been around for about six million years !!!
so logicly what are the chances that we are the most advanced civilization ? probably close to zero...
so again logicly with all the time the universe existed where are those aliens?
they should be super duper ultra aliens civilization by now, we megastructures that colonize galaxys.
yet we see nothing.
every civilization destroy itself by science, there are fucking scientist that create black holes, and we know almost nothing about them !
who know what could happen ?!
not necessarily we get destroyed by that experiment, who knows...
its not my theory btw, its one of the many theories called Great Filter.

but yes, it is bothers me i guess...

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keliice t1_j53adxz wrote

We also won’t be here when they begin to feast on us. I call that a win.

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Ea127586 t1_j53afvu wrote

Or it could be we as a species are already doing exactly that, and it’s all part of some deep black/off book classified space program, built from reverse engineered crashed UFOs propelled by electrogravitics, using some kind of portal/wormhole travel for great distances.

We’ve been visited for thousands of years. All over the world we find ancient evidence of visitors bringing knowledge from the stars arriving in flying craft. The UFO phenomenon is a tale as old as time. More and more the governments have hastened the drip of disclosure with acknowledging UAP programs like AATIP. They’ve begun the process of full disclosure, but on their terms.

I’m hoping that sooner rather then later, not only will the public get read-in on the special access programs congress is aware of , but the truth will come out about the deep black/off book projects, that could in theory be a thousand years more advanced then our conventional military. So maybe there’s a chance we’ll live to see the day we can see Jupiter in person or meet a visitor from the stars.

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gofishx t1_j53brv2 wrote

Replying to verifiedboomer (#1,412,352)

And 10,000 years is just for what we call civilizations, which is a tiny fraction of the time humans have actually existed. Apparently, there was a cave that was continuously inhabited by humans for 78,000 years! That's a scary amount of time to think about. History and pre history have nothing on our ancient history. And to think, all that time was observed in little chunks by so many people.

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ArmChairAnalyst86 t1_j53ctql wrote

No because I can literally do nothing about the time I live and have too much crap going on in the present.

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Gofastrun t1_j53ixk7 wrote

Replying to c0ntr0ll3dsubstance (#1,412,312)

There’s a ton of earth left. The problem is that it’s all inhospitable and difficult to access.

A large percentage of what history refers to as “exploring the world” is just Europeans traveling to places where humans already live. It was new to them, but not to humanity

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Mutex70 t1_j53umtl wrote

Replying to PoppersOfCorn (#1,412,533)

Evolution prefers traits that allow the species to better survive in the environment. There is no "need of the environment" involved.

What is it you think the environment "needs" in order for a species to evolve.

I suspect you meant to say humans have evolved to be better adapted to our environment. If so, your phrasing is very non-standard and confusing.

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PoppersOfCorn t1_j53vjer wrote

Replying to Mutex70 (#1,413,800)

The "needs of the environment" is why we we develop the traits that make that survival easier.

For instance, people who have lived at high altitudes for generations tend to have larger spleens and looped capillaries because that is what was needed to live easier in that environment

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Mutex70 t1_j53wyc2 wrote

Replying to PoppersOfCorn (#1,413,839)

The environment doesn't need anything. That's not how that word is used.

Just like a person does not go to the store for "the needs of the store", a species does not evolve for "the needs of the environment".

Additionally, a species doesn't evolve due to specific environmental "needs" (whatever that means). It evolved when a mutation provides a higher chance of offspring that survive. That can have nothing to do with "need".

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PuraVidaPagan t1_j54quah wrote

No I wish I was born earlier (born in 89). I feel like I missed the best years of the 60s, 70s and 80s. I hate what technology has done to our world. I hate how overcrowded everything is. Maybe we peaked in 2000 and it’s been downhill ever since.

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Mutex70 t1_j555k0n wrote

Replying to PoppersOfCorn (#1,413,942)

>We will have evolved to the needs of our environments

This literally means the environment needs something, and we evolve to meet it.

The sentence "Hank provides for the needs of his children" means Hank's children have needs, not Hank himself. Same thing here.

It may not be what you meant, but it is what you wrote.

Additionally, "need" is a vague term which does not capture the driving force behind evolution.

Imagine a species that has all its needs met. There is more than enough food for the current population, no predators, but the species is limited to one offspring every 10 years, and typically have 30 years when they can produce offspring.

A mutation occurs, and this new member of the species can have offspring every 5 years. In this case, even though all of the "needs" of the species are being met, that mutation will likely out-compete the trait of having offspring every 10 years. The species will evolve, even though all its "needs" were being met.

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