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Why is a bright future assumed?
Sun eventually goes supernova.
It doesn’t. It’s not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.
Yeah but in the process it’ll scour the surface off the earth so it’s not all bad news
Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.
I read in this book that there’s a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.
Try the steak.
I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.
Are you a cannibal?
Shh!" said Ford. “It’s conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn’t matter. Sugar’s fine. And when it’s full, you pull the plug out… are you listening?” “I’m listening.” "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. “Clever.” “That’s not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector… backwards!” “Backwards?” “Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?” “And that’s how the Universe began is it?” said Arthur. “No,” said Ford, "but it’s a marvelous way to relax.
That’s not bright at all. That’s the darkest thing.
Very true.
Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.
Yeah that’s totally not a worse death.
Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.
Thermonuclear reactions are very bright
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Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.
I once heard in some history tv show that it’s called “dark ages” not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.
Absolutely. It’s sucked a lot longer than that.
Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.
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Medieval people thinking the Earth was flat is a myth that was made up during the Age of Enlightenment.
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That is a myth that has been debunked a long time ago. In fact, the Earth being round was discovered in antiquity and Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference almost accurately in about 240 BC.
That’s not what it was, not by a long shot, but alright.
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What the hell are you talking about? I’m talking about enlightenment, you know, the explosion of philosophy in the 17th century?such as the explosion of liberalism, ideas of socialism, The theories of government, American and french revolution, ect.
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I seriously believe you’ve messed up the years
Sorry what learning and expanding are you talking about? Can you please be specific about which years and give a source?
pretty much everything between ~600 and 1900 and pretty much everywhere from Morrocco to Turkey to Iran.
Just read up on Moors, Ottomans, Iranians, Mail Empire, Islamic culture, science and arts…
A lot of it in Palestine got destroyed by the savage European crusaders though.
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They want a bright future just for themselves. Not for the society as a whole
that doesnt work though. Happyness consistently is highest in societies which have the strongest wealth distribution.
Why are you not in lemmygrad, comrade?
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And now you’ve outed yourself for our blocklists. Good job.
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Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future
I’m worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die…
That’s why it’s called the bright future… Right?
Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don’t forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).
Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.
We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as “antibiotics” again, before bacteria all became immune to them.
Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too…
It’s a good thing that people aren’t anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|
Our existing antibiotics would be perfectly fine, if they were used responsibly instead of mass breeding resistant bacteria to mass breed animals under terrible conditions because capitalism.
In the same wake climate change would be much easier to deal with if the economic system wasnt designed around infinite growth of production and consumption.
If wishes were horses, then we all would ride.
As it is, instead we will FAAFO.
It is very naive to think that the collective endgoal of humanity is to have super health when right now the only goal is which super power will dominate over the others, killing everyone who stands on their way
Not just right now - it was probably always that way. At one point those nations needed STEM e.g. engineers to win those (cultural) wars, while now we are gearing up to use robots and AI instead.
Even so, I think the loss of antibiotics is more of a short sighted side effect. It could need a century of development to overcome, but it is more profitable to sell pain relief right now so… it’s a problem for a future generation to have to deal with, so long as I get mine now, seems to be the way of thinking.
If the endgoal of humanity is for everyone to live happily and healthy why don’t they start right now by decommercializing the health sector? Why health research and provision are commercial?
Yeah, you’re mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.
Ok, added some bars to the left
Ah, much better. lol
there’s only one future for humanity that’s bright
It’s posadism time
Climate change will also kill capitalism and can signal aliens far away.
yep, also a viable variant
in reality the graph alternates black and white and only holds true for one certain location/group at a time
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I mean that’s the brightest future right, them bombs give out all kinds of light.
We don’t have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.
I’ll believe it when we dismantle the nukes, class society, and fossil fuel industry. A better world is possible but only if we fight for it.
I was gonna post this lol
The day i realized this and that i wouldn’t live to see said bright future was rather disheartening
