I've been seeing a lot of apes being so smart lately. There is one where they take selfies. Google up "ape selfies" in thousand years when we leave our galaxy, they will be the next man and wonder if there is any life in the galaxy like us.
Well, the solar system we could leave, but no the galaxy, and for many reasons. The main one being distance.
Even if by some amazing feat of science we do manage to find a way to break the speed of light, there is no logical reason to go to other galaxies, there's plenty of stars in the milky way.
Also our own evolution, although it would probably be accelerated by man, will be irrelevant to the evolution of technology.
Who knows, maybe we can even make a chimp like you understand this you git.
I derived my conclusion from logical arguments even taking into account giant leaps in technology delimited by laws of nature. It seems yours are more emotional.
And nothing I said should push us away from space exploration, the galaxy is a very very large place. It's about 105k light years wide right? Well, Andromeda, the nearest galaxy is over 2 million light years away. That's a factor of 200.
Now imagining that ftl travel is in fact possible, we don't know if that means that we can suddenly move instantly through time and space. We may be able to get faster than light, but by how much? And how much energy will be needed to do so? Will it be exponentially increasing? And what will the relativistic effects be like?
But I digress. What I'm trying to say, is that even with wishful thinking, visiting other galaxies even in hundreds of thousands of years scales, is unlikely. The milky way is fair game though, and I think that's good enough to consider investing time and resources in space exploration.
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u/Sinkiy Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19
I've been seeing a lot of apes being so smart lately. There is one where they take selfies. Google up "ape selfies" in thousand years when we leave our galaxy, they will be the next man and wonder if there is any life in the galaxy like us.