• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    If you don’t see how that’s a completely dumb comparison, this is hopeless. I’m reality-based, you are not.

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      28 days ago

      Sure, friend. You can see reality thousands of years into the future and know exactly what happens.

      My bad.

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        28 days ago

        Do you think physics and chemistry have changed in some significant way over the last thousand years?

        Yet somehow, YOU can see reality in a thousand years, and it matches the sci-fi mindrot you watched as a kid…

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          28 days ago

          Yes? Not the principles behind them, but our understanding of them as a species.

          You’re a boring doomer who thinks humans will never find, create, or invent something we’ve never done before? Seriously? What kind of boring hill is that to die on?

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            28 days ago

            Uh, it’s called “reality” my friend, try it.

            You can’t “invent” your way out of fundamental physical limits.

            A Boeing 747 looks the same in 1969 as it does today. It still flies over the Atlantic in six hours burning kerosene in turbofan engines.

            Sure, you can get a few percent here, a few percent there, but do you think suddenly we’ll have warp drive?

            Come on. Do you know how empty and huge space is?