The closest planet which it’s believed could possibly support human life is in the Proxima Centauri system. It is only 5,880,000,000,000 miles away (give or take a million or so). The greatest speed man has ever achieved is 24791 miles an hour. So, if we could build a ship that could maintain that speed for the 237 million, 182 thousand and 848 years it would require, and somehow maintain life support and have no mechanical failures, humans could get there. At that point, there is really no way of knowing if it could actually support life. And, assuming that it could, the life it is supporting is quite likely to decide “there goes the neighborhood” and shoot us out of their sky.So, we either need to develop warp drive- RIGHT NOW ( which we have no idea how to do)-or we need to put out the effort to quit using the fossil fuels that are destroying the fragile ecosystem we have ( which we do know how to do). Humans are able to breath a very specific atmosphere, eat foods that are produced by a very specific range of soil, etc. We are a part of this earth, created by billions of things happening which could have gone a lot of other ways, which means that the result of all those things has produced a very specific and unique biosystem.When we destroy it to the point that it will no longer support our life there are no viable alternatives that aren’t science fiction— with an emphasis on the FICTION part.
The subtlety of this rather escapes me. The point to take in is that “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.” — Swift, in ’Gulliver’s Travels’
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Diane Lee Premium Member over 1 year ago
The closest planet which it’s believed could possibly support human life is in the Proxima Centauri system. It is only 5,880,000,000,000 miles away (give or take a million or so). The greatest speed man has ever achieved is 24791 miles an hour. So, if we could build a ship that could maintain that speed for the 237 million, 182 thousand and 848 years it would require, and somehow maintain life support and have no mechanical failures, humans could get there. At that point, there is really no way of knowing if it could actually support life. And, assuming that it could, the life it is supporting is quite likely to decide “there goes the neighborhood” and shoot us out of their sky.So, we either need to develop warp drive- RIGHT NOW ( which we have no idea how to do)-or we need to put out the effort to quit using the fossil fuels that are destroying the fragile ecosystem we have ( which we do know how to do). Humans are able to breath a very specific atmosphere, eat foods that are produced by a very specific range of soil, etc. We are a part of this earth, created by billions of things happening which could have gone a lot of other ways, which means that the result of all those things has produced a very specific and unique biosystem.When we destroy it to the point that it will no longer support our life there are no viable alternatives that aren’t science fiction— with an emphasis on the FICTION part.
Decepticomic over 1 year ago
That’s a pretty good drawing of harvey weinstein.
androgenoide over 1 year ago
Planets are just a source of raw materials to build space habitats.
GRLCowan over 1 year ago
The Earth is the cradle of mankind … but one cannot live in the cradle forever.
bradbaillod over 1 year ago
SPLORCH!
Wit Memo Premium Member over 1 year ago
Wasn’t this creature called Chuff in another TTDB? In that one he had a really good nap!
kaffekup over 1 year ago
So we’re the interplanetary toilet? Pretty much what we’ve been doing to ourselves already…
fritzoid Premium Member over 1 year ago
Venit, evacuavit, vidimus, evacuimus.
He came, he evacuated, we saw, we evacuated.
eddi-TBH over 1 year ago
We are an evolved by-product of Disgusto’s by-products. That explains everything.
fitzmagnus over 1 year ago
The subtlety of this rather escapes me. The point to take in is that “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.” — Swift, in ’Gulliver’s Travels’