Depends on how many centuries it takes us to go from our current primitive understanding of biology in the age of discovery, to biology as a completed engineering corpus. Once we have complete control over life at every level, we will spread across the galaxy within 2 galactic orbits, or around 44 million years. So from that perspective, we are on the starship already, it is only a matter of when and where we disembark.
Personally, I bet we will be able to recreate nearly all extinct life as we unravel the ways everything evolved. The mind boggling part is just how complex that task will be. Biology as something like a high level Python script, will make the present digital scope of knowledge look like protohuman education standards. Eventually you’re growing a brain with a deterministic neuron structure for digital computations and calling it your computer. That will eventually lead to all of us moving into space except for a few indigenous hold outs. Gravity prisons suck, and the resource scarcity due to gravitational differentiation does not exist in more wealthy regions of the stellar system.
The real key to getting to that future is to think and talk about it. Biology as a fully understood and mastered technology is obviously the next major age. That is the final human technology; when we finally exit the stone age of silicon.
The whole FTL issue will be a hindrance to spreading outside the solar system.
I did read an odd article a while back about how Einstein got it wrong and it is possible to exceed light speed if you keep accelerating.
Not a problem at all once biology is fully understood. It only takes 22 million years for Sol to orbit the galaxy. We simply build space stations that are self sustained ecosystems. It does not matter how many generations exist before arrival at a destination. The issue is our hubris in the present and desire to be something more than we really are in the grand scheme of the universe.
Even though you are saying that it will be “mind boggling” complex, talking about a biology as a “high level Python script” does not even begin to cut it.
Why are you negative with a friendly digital neighborhood conversation? Why would you make me regret responding and posting? What makes you believe that to be okay or normal in some sane social context?
Depends on how many centuries it takes us to go from our current primitive understanding of biology in the age of discovery, to biology as a completed engineering corpus. Once we have complete control over life at every level, we will spread across the galaxy within 2 galactic orbits, or around 44 million years. So from that perspective, we are on the starship already, it is only a matter of when and where we disembark.
Personally, I bet we will be able to recreate nearly all extinct life as we unravel the ways everything evolved. The mind boggling part is just how complex that task will be. Biology as something like a high level Python script, will make the present digital scope of knowledge look like protohuman education standards. Eventually you’re growing a brain with a deterministic neuron structure for digital computations and calling it your computer. That will eventually lead to all of us moving into space except for a few indigenous hold outs. Gravity prisons suck, and the resource scarcity due to gravitational differentiation does not exist in more wealthy regions of the stellar system.
The real key to getting to that future is to think and talk about it. Biology as a fully understood and mastered technology is obviously the next major age. That is the final human technology; when we finally exit the stone age of silicon.
The whole FTL issue will be a hindrance to spreading outside the solar system.
I did read an odd article a while back about how Einstein got it wrong and it is possible to exceed light speed if you keep accelerating.
Not a problem at all once biology is fully understood. It only takes 22 million years for Sol to orbit the galaxy. We simply build space stations that are self sustained ecosystems. It does not matter how many generations exist before arrival at a destination. The issue is our hubris in the present and desire to be something more than we really are in the grand scheme of the universe.
Even though you are saying that it will be “mind boggling” complex, talking about a biology as a “high level Python script” does not even begin to cut it.
Why are you negative with a friendly digital neighborhood conversation? Why would you make me regret responding and posting? What makes you believe that to be okay or normal in some sane social context?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to have those effects. Just wanted to share my thoughts. Sorry if I didnt find the right words to express them.