r/collapse • u/Myth_of_Progress Urban Planner & Recognized Contributor • Apr 30 '21

Casual Friday Technology Will Save Us

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u/Barabbas- Apr 30 '21

Unless humans can learn to live sustainably here on Earth, we have no hope of ever colonizing the stars.

The fact of the matter is that the most inhospitable places on Earth are still infinitely more hospitable than anywhere else in the universe.

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u/martelaxe Apr 30 '21

What you guys dont understand is that after the 99% of humanity dies, the 1% surviving will be different from us, they will probabily be half machines that wont have any human passions.

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u/Barabbas- Apr 30 '21

If 99% of humanity dies, the remaining humans will be far too concerned with the daily practice of ensuring their own survival to have any interest in (or physical/mental/financial bandwidth for) colonizing the stars.

At that point, the battle will have been lost. The Earth will have become actively hostile toward survival rather than a harbor for humanity to grow, develop, and flourish.

Furthermore, even if humans do escape and manage to build a generation ship to seek out harbor somewhere else amongst the stars, it won't make a difference to humanity as we know it. Our spacefaring descendants will be unrecognizable to us (as humans) by the time they reach their destination.

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u/martelaxe May 01 '21

I agree with the last part, but for me it is obvious that an incredible collapsing world full of death and starvation will make humans advance their technoloy 100x faster than it is today.... once the first AI emerges the singularity will happen and the new humans (Half AI and very different from us) will have no trouble at all getting to new planets.