In this video I speculate as to how we may colonize space, covering everything from actual plans for lunar settlement to more speculative topics such as how future colonies may be governed.
@@superpangamer I don't think curing ageing would be bad. Then you could live as long as you prefer, and end it on your own terms with your loved ones around you. As well as live a life in almost perfect health, without the problems that come with old age.
@@superpangamer biological immortality is different than the “you can’t die” immortality, with biological immortality you don’t age but you could still die from other causes (sort of like vampires, they don’t age but can still die), so in other words you’d be able to live as long as you wanted (and then eventually die).
If anything, this video shows how much we need a solar system real-time strategy game. Not only on one planet, but on all planets & larger moons combined. Kinda like Stellaris, but starting today. Would be awesome!
ekite dangerous you can see millons of diffrent systems with everthing and anything can be manipulated for all other players by helping a specific politcal group or tradeing with a specifc colony.
@@connorthomas2667 Um, since when was elite a RTS game? Plus the guy is literally talking about a game that focuses solely on the solar system. Elite may be big but it’s as deep as a puddle. This is coming from someone with thousands of hours in the game lol
The phrase "Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the universe" couldn't be more true. I was born in 2001, so I don't expect to live into 2100. But I can at least die happy knowin I witnessed the beginning to what humanity can achieve in the future.
Also born in 2001, kinda sucks. We are living at the pinnacle of current human advancement, and probably one of the last generations to know how earth is before we become an interplanetary species. Makes me hope we’ll get reborn a few centuries later so we can see how it is then
it is estimated that today's average people will live 200 years, so don't worry we have a future just in sum, what will this future look like? imagine that in 2170 they will ask you how it was in your youth, it's only exciting, ask you how it was when everything was different,
@@Drakonus_ Well the moon has day/night cycles just like Earth, but they are a month long. It's just that at the poles there are craters without sunlight which I mentioned in the video. If we dug a deep enough hole in Antarctica it wouldn't get any sunlight either as the sun never passes directly overhead. Same ordeal. If we had settlements on the side of the moon facing Earth, their lights would be visible whenever that part of the moon is dark. So during a half moon or whatever, if the bases are in the dark portion. But I don't think city lights on the moon would be anywhere near enough to have much of an impact on wildlife here. They would look like pretty bright stars basically, they wouldn't illuminate Earth at all like a full moon does.
There's a scifi novel series by Jack Campbell called "The Lost Fleet" that had a neat idea about Earth. In the distant future, Earth is still nominally divided among the old nations, as there is simply too much history to warrant the planet unifying. However, Earth as a whole is seen by most humans as a semi-holy site, being revered for being the Homeworld of Humanity. I think in a similar vein, it would be neat if eventually Earth essentially becomes one massive UNESCO World Heritage Site, or international mandate or park.
@OnePlayer480 Probably everything within viewing distance from the landing site would declared a National Park so as to maintain the original view the astronauts saw. The way in and up to the site itself would be a raised platform/boardwalk to preserve the footprints and other detritus. Maybe with some holographic/light up acrylic screens as information providers.
i really hope sub-light speeds and communication are possible somehow. Having numerous human civilisations completely cut off from eachother feels, from the perspective of a person born in the 21st century, weirdly frightening Edit : yes I meant FTL/super-light speed, thank you for correcting me
*super-light speeds IMO, it's actually kinda cool. I understand that feeling of loneliness(?), but if I spend a bit of time thinking about it, it's just neat.
Maybe but like the Expanse has alot of different factions including the 3 main factions, which is the Martian, United nation, and belter faction which are also made up of hundreds and thousands of different factions
well, technically the belters exist as hundreds of smaller factions (which is why the OPA failed), and Mars exerts a lot of military control around the outer belt, and Jupiter. Earth is only unified because nations fought each other too much, and needed to unify to face climate change in the 2100s, which is why the UN is the governing body (but trade zones do have a level of self governance).
It's wild seeing all this happening after over half a century of stagnation. Although I'm still not convinced it's for real this time. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this ends up getting abandoned like we did after Apollo
Reusable rockets is the game changer here, that lowers the cost of launching things into space by orders of magnitude. But it's not like we actually stagnated in space exploration in the past half century, the feats just weren't as headline worthy. The main thing that happened is that NASA didn't get a lot of funding, so we had to wait till space exploration became cheap enough and profitable for companies. SLS, Falcon 9 and even the Space shuttle are/were *much* more efficient than the Saturn V used in the 60's and 70's. And don't forget that we've had a permanent human presence in space since the 90's, the International space station. We've also landed two car-sized rovers on mars and sent probes to the outer solar system. And that's with a fraction of the funding NASA had during the space race.
Elon plans to get what? 1 million people on mars by 2050? Mans passionate about space, and an passionate man is an determined man. Regardless, the die has been cast. Whether we want this or not, its going to happen.
I concur: it's overly optimistic, the environment out there is much worse than the worst places on Earth, even under the oceans, which remain unsettled in spite of the optimism about sub-sea settlement when I was a kid in the 70s.
@@Cortizelic the fact Elon musk says he wants to have glass domes on Mars goes to show how out of touch with reality he is. That is a great way to build a Mars colony a if you want everyone to die of radiation poisoning within a few years. Not to mention the fact he wants to build an extrajudicial plutocracy.
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@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Next on our news, Human purists protesting against Machine Rights and Human modification. Will this increase the discrimination against Human-Machine relationships? Stay tuned on SolNews!
Crucial mistake in your comment about distance deciding which part would Earth maintain its hold on. In history, countries retained control over territories that took months to get a simple message to. They kept them for centuries, and didn't lose them because there was poor communication. Yes, being far away is a problem - just like it was 2000 years ago to send a simple message from one corner of a relatively small kingdom to another - yet we still had empires that lasted for centuries, some even going over 1000 years in continuity. Mars being 20 or so minutes away means that we will not have a real-time conversation with anyone there - true. But why would we have to? 200 years ago, letters that traveled for months were the only form of conversation over distance and it did not cause problems. Is it better if it is instant? Yes. Would we have territories breaking off because it is not instant? No.
I'd like to add that, of all the places collinised during the European age of discovery, the only ones that are still dependent on their colonisers are remote islands, most of which lacked indigenous populations before the colonizers arrived. Unless there's some kinda little green men we don't know about, this will be the case for all space colonies
Good point you made there. If we met Aliens more advanced than us and they were not hostel (no way to know really) and they gave us superior communication equipment then that might not even be an issue. Only time will tell
Plus these celestial bodies don't have the capacity to support plant life as of now, and I don't see us changing that anytime soon, any and all self-sufficiency efforts will be relatively small scale.
@@aclassicguardsman946 Mars will always have self-sufficiency (at least they would survive 1-2 yars at minimum! because you cant send rockets the entire year.
I agree that distance/travel time is not as much of an issue, but you know what is? Actually getting there. It takes so many more resources to get to space than to cross an ocean, even in history. Rockets are expensive, one use vehicles (currently) and even with new innovations like skyhooks, tethers, and even space elevators (the last of which may never be practical), it will still be incredibly difficult to transport things to other planets. What does this mean? It means that once other planets are self-sufficient (a reality that may take sometime), there’s no good way for other planets to exercise their influence effectively. Sure they may remain a de-jure part of their parent countries. But new colonies will have significant autonomy by nature, unless space travel can be made significantly cheaper, a prospect that currently doesn’t seem feasible.
This could be the Genese of a of a scifi trilogy. Just imagine your home planet get invaded by aliens, then you discover that the alien civilisation that invade your planet belongs to a divided empire with billions of factions fighting among themselves for domination and independence, and all that tight to a singular "mother planet"
Massive multiplanet empires would most definitely not be the normal state of space-faring political powers. We'd need FTL travel and communication. A forseeable exception could be AI or self-replicating robots.
@@E4439Qv5FTL is unnecessary. It's too chaotic. Can't have time travel everywhere. 99% speed of light and much longer lifespans (thousands of years) is enough
We would not be mining helium 3. It is next to useless, and for what little we have a use for it, we can actually make it in large enough quantities. The only use we would have for it (currently, none economical) is for aneutronic fusion fuel. Helium 3 reaction is not even that energetic compared to reactions of D and T, which are orders of magnitude more abundant than helium 3. Plus, helium 3 can be made, and is made, by byproduct of certain decays as well as actually a "waste" product of the first two generations of fusion fuel cycles. So there is no reason for you to make an entire helium 3 mining enterprise on the Moon. Anyone with a fusion reactor (the thing you'd want your helium 3) could actually outproduce anything that you could mine, for a fraction of a price. It would be a colossal waste of money and resources.
Star Wars predicted the solution already; lasers. We actually have laser weaponry at this moment, it's used to destroy incoming missiles, drones or engines for the most part. Just burn a big ass hole in the space infrastructure, much less debris.
@@zwykhg364 Debris works like a butterfly effect, big things crash in orbit into other things make many small things. It wouldn't take much to induce Kessler Syndrome. It's already starting to become a problem today.
@@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 what it most likely that after 1 or 2 SLS flights the SLS will portion of the flight will be quietly dropped and everything will be done on starship
@@carso1500 it's fucking pathetic that the U.S didn't bother expanding its operations in space until it became profitable to do so. Exploration of space should never be profitable, or have profit in mind. It's an investment for advancement of technologies that need to be available to the public.
@@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 its not pathetic, its just simply logical, resources are finite, the dangers are real, there was for example only a 70% probability of success with every saturn V launch the fact that no one died during the apolo missions is nothing short of a miracle but it was a gamble (and they did nearly lost a crew but it was salvaged) simply speaking the tech wasnt there yet and it hasnt been there until relatively recently, also just dismising economic constraints is childish, yeah everyone want to just ignore economics have infinite money cheat enabled and make a giant dyson sphere and continent sized space habitats and what not but the real world isnt a firaxis game where you can write a code and cheat your way into victory, resources are finite, the public trust is finite, human lives are finite, apolo was insanely expensive and unsustainable and all the money that was spend on apolo was money not spend on mantaining infrastructure, on education, on healthcare or on other just as important science programs space is important yes, the most important venture indeed, but it also has to be economical, viable and sensical because again resources are finite, public trust is finite, human lives are finite also economic insentives are the best way of getting people to do stuff, talking about advancing humanity is great but people need to eat, companies need to pay their shareholders and the investors who invested their resources to develop the technology and want a return of that investment everyone wants to live in a perfect world but this world is imperfect and you need to learn that and live with it, if you learn to accept those facts and go on despite them then you can accomplish whatever you want, if you want an example look at elon musk, the guy is legitimately a space nerd, he loves space and his purpose in life is to make humanity multiplanetary, but he understands the constraits and limitations, but since he knows it he knows what needs to be done so instead of just sitting in front of his computer writing stuff like "it's fucking pathetic that the U.S didn't bother expanding its operations in space until it became profitable to do so." or "Exploration of space should never be profitable, or have profit in mind." he worked hard to make space exploration profitable so that he can furfil his dream in a realistic way, and he did, and thanks to that we are going back to the moon and mars im not throwing shade at you btw, its nice that you think like you do
@@carso1500 if resources are finite (which they are) then you'd simply not capitalize on it, simply because one rich dude can buy up all the resources and resale them at a hiked price. This Is what many corporations do. If the privatization of space is inevitable, then it needs to be regulated as all hell, if it isn't them there's no law protecting the people that don't have an army of lawyers working for them, or any law protecting the people living in other worlds. Imagine living in mars and having to constantly fear dying due to pollutants like radioactive material, or not having enough money to eat on a dead planet.
I believe a human ran empire could exist, we did have Republics, empires, and kingdoms have large territories that could take months to get news, or even years for some areas. However, I do not think it would exist beyond our solar system, or even beyond Jupiter.
@@maliziosoeperverso1697 i think Alpha Centauri A is a better target, a G2V 4.85 billions years old star with a (candidate) Neptune planet in orbit of 1.1 AU, it could have moons that will be hospitable, planets around red dwarfs are anything but hospitable.
@@maliziosoeperverso1697 that why i said candidate, while Proxima B is an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone the star is a very violent red dwarf, some people are optimistic planets around red dwarfs could be suitable for human life but all the data we have shows it's very unlikely. Tidal lock, short and intense seasons due to orbital periods less than a week and violent solar flares, even building a colony at the twilight zone of a planet around a "calm" red dwarf star is unlikely, humans will go crazy with short years and no day-night cycle, a twilight zone will make the temperature bearable but the lack of day-night cycles would be a huge burden.
Lmao we can't even run our world right. As much as I love space exploration and stuff since I was kid, it doesn't feel the same. It's all grey with a taste of the same industry first mindset that got us to where we are now, but I'm just a dude with an opinion
@@mimotakito1114 Let's be real, even if we found life anywhere, it'd be very simple wildlife or micro-organisms, not anything that's actually sapient or complex like we see here on Earth.
@@alicorn3924 I don't think anyone is implying that here, at least not on our moon that is. Even in other solar system moons, the chances of life, while incredibly low (even for micro-organisms) are still there. We'll see what our future has to say, but if I am still alive by then somehow, I don't think we'll find anything that's actually alive in any of the moons of the solar system, as cool as that might be. What I am hoping for is that we at least find evidence of something that used to be alive being present in some place in the solar system, even if it's fossilized microscopic life.
I don't think that Europe needs to federalise to have a significant presence in space, the ESA need only act at the intermediary for the various nations of Europe. The ESA may control the transportation but bases could still easily be national but negotiate through the EU. This type of organisation would also work for other unions such as the African Union or private companies.
The EU could never decide on anything. The emerging mega corporation would outrun them in the colonization game. The more likely future for the EU is total dissolution, with a possibility of a much smaller federated core remaining.
@@Merecir That’s bullshit, beacuse: 1) After UK left (wich has always been more of an associated state anyways), none of the remaining members (especially € zone) can realistically secede and maintain their economies in…existence. The dissolution of the EU would have to be a coordinated, organised and thoroughly planned process. But, 2) There aren’t many high profile politicians left who actually want to completly dissolute the Union. Because it would be too difficult and politically costly to do something like that, while the Germans or Benluxers would never agree to it. It would take a war (and a looot of unrest) to dissolute it. And European nations are pretty much unable to lead wars nowdays. We already have integrated Europe, and there is no realistic way to take that back. The only thing we can do is try to make the EU more effective.
@@martinmendl1399 funny how you say that when right wing anti EU parties are on the rise all over Europe. From Italy's current government, to the AfD in Germany, to LePen in France to the current Swedish government. The union is just no sustainable at this point. Especially after the series of idiotic decisions done in the industry of energy. The UK was lucky to leave early but I don't see it working. People want to rule their own nation and they dislike the ultra federation route that the EU has been taking the past few decades. And the downgrade of the euro along with the extreme population decline show just the start of the problems of EU.
I think colonized moons around the same planet will overwhelmingly choose to unite. For example, people living on all moons of Saturn (aside from Titan) will more or less have the same lifestyles and have a very fixed range in which there distances can vary. So I think this will make moons of the outer solar system divide at most by the planet level with each moon maybe given semi-autonomous status within a hypothetical Jupiter or Saturn nation.
I hope the human race can just unite without dividing even more. It’s just stupid and has the potential to create more wars. The economy on earth keeps getting larger and larger with the growing needs for more energy and resources. The government’s of the future will laugh at these colonies trying to secede themselves
I doubt it, I think the colonies will slowly decentralize once it gets more densely populated. This is probably for the better because federal govs aren't really good for serving the people.
@@apersononlineyes6554 like communities of satellite civilizations/states I've been thinking about people doing this on the home planet with floating platforms Like spaceships, disconnected & they can even have group healthcare & governments with a public access template to get things going, like how airplanes get prompters you'd hear when different country ships are going to be arriving & leaving your local international waters Or however that's been worked out And like a cruise city, people living on the surface of the ocean
@@tonykristhiofan1113 bro that kind of thinking, is exactly what led to the colonization of the third world country back in the imperial age my guy. that's gonna kick us in the ass later down the line fr.
My son will lead a rebellion on earth overthrow the government, make himself emperor of the planet and go on a decade long campaign to conquer every human settlement in the sol system
The UNSC already exist today. United Nations Security Council, what you're talking about being the United Nations Space Command is the further evolution of the Security Council today.
@@tristanbackup2536 I do believe he was possibly referencing a United Nations of Earth (UNE) with chances of UNM. (You probably know what planet i'm referring to)
@@miguelhuaman8280 i appreciate you pointing that out to me. I must have forgotten in a (failed) attempt to be silly. That's on me. The internet has spoken. Sheesh
@@UnkyHamHam Seldon doesnt even predict history correctly in the fiction novels of Asimov, his master plan falls apart at the 2nd book if I remember (Its been over a year since I read the Foundation trilogy) and later they say that the vision of Seldon, his supreme plan, is a mistake, and the Gaia folk end up adopting a New project for humanity.
@@VOTE_REFORM_UK I think united by continents at least. Thinks like the USMCA and the EU could eventually become actual countries. I mean, could you imagine if the entire EU was just one country and the entirety of Canada, the US, and Mexico was one country?
Countries that are run by dictators are going to have a harder time. I mean, could you imagine if North Korea and China united. Likely in NK's best interests however i doubt kim would be too happy about giving up some of his power in order to be united with china.
In the game elite dangerous a space game with a 1:1 scale of our own galaxy you can find sol put you need a permit to be able to get close or even jump to it In this game there is faster than light travel yet so much of the Galaxy is left unexplored
Whoever the players in the colonization of the solar system will be, the time it takes to travel between Earth and Mars will mean we can look forward to a coming Second Age of "Sail". It simply won't be feasible for states on Earth to maintain total control of colonies off-world.
Not really whoever has the guns and money will own the colony. Humans will never be like Star Trek that is a fantasy. I predict when we are all dead a few hundred years from now we will have wars in space, embargos and political strife. Newer tech doesn't change the core of human beings. Just look at the past 3000 years of human history.
@@JohnSmith-tx1mz it will be a totally different paradigm than what we're used to. Lets suppose US has got complete control over space but China rise up and take over the earth. Or Moon rebel against and take over the whole space mission from the earth
I almost fell over when you casually referred to humans living on Mars as "Martians". Like it makes sense, but I'd never thought about it that way before.
I was quite afraid from the title of the video that this would be a rant from someone who didn't know much about space, saying only that colonizing space is evil. Thank you for actually making something meaningful.
@@wanderingkernel5002 I mean: It would solve some of our resource issues (finding space rocks that can make up for our decreasing supply of minerals like phosphorous), it can help us understand way more about our universe and the planets and to top it all off: SPACE IS FUCKING AWSOME!
@@NA-AN But I mean how would it really solve our resource issues. This is kind of like a similar argument I've heard some people make about colonizing due to overpopulation. But, let's say for the sake of argument that we do go ahead and start mining space rocks so we can replenish resources. What then happens after we run out of space rocks? We're simply right back where we started. It isn't so much a solution as it is more just kicking the can down the road. And I'm not denying that space is fucking awesome, but I've yet to understand why we need to interject ourselves into it.
@@radioactivemeta3321 Yes I do realize that. It's bigger than anyone can imagine, but that still doesn't change the problem that it is still a finite resource. For instance, oil is a finite resource. From what scientists seem to understand, there are exoplanets that have been deemed habitable, so there is likely some alien life, either intelligent or non-intelligent living on those planets, meaning therefore there is likely oil. But if we just keep chasing after these oil bearing planets, it is a fact that we will eventually run out, and, as was said, return to square one. Simply chasing after resources doesn't answer the question, it only kicks the can down the road until the issue comes up again.
Yes and i assume at the rate were going there is no telling what we will do in the next 100 years especially after the singularity if you believe in that
the good bit about space is that there is enough resources for everyone out there. even with billions or trillions of humans competition for materials might be lower at least...
exactly, with things like asteroid mining we actually have a chance of reaching a future where things like food, shelter and water are a basic human right
@@user-zz3sn8ky7z never going to happen. Companies/nations are going to fight over who gets to control 100% of space and it’s resources. Most of these resources will never be used to improve life for the vast majority of people on here on earth.
Colonies always go through the same stages when it comes to their status related to their colonizer. They're outposts at first (no material independence), then they become something akin to provinces (partial material independence), then they become truly independent once they become fully self-sustaining
I would assume most new colonies would be democratic once they got big enough, even corporate-run ones. Keep in mind, Elon's base would likely be the first, and he has said that it would be a direct democracy.
IIRC Elon said "I *guess* it would be a direct democracy. As excited as I am about SpaceX, one of the two things that worries me about their Mars plans is that it doesn't seem that Mr. Musk or anyone else has put *serious* thought into what politics on Mars should actually be like.
@@elseggs6504 Fair point. Do you have a link describing what working conditions are like at SpaceX and Tesla? I remember reading years ago that 60 hour work weeks were practically required at SpaceX (and turnover was high), but that was years ago when the company was still sort of an underdog, and not the undisputed market leader.
Imagine we are the founding species of the galaxy and all intelligent species will be our children. It will be so beautiful. We all are important in this.
Well, it can be colonialism in the most traditional sense of planting colonies of one's own people to develop in a new place, and in the more modern economic sense, loosely, of opening up new resources for oneself, but not in the sense the word is usually, darkly, used today- exploitation of an indigenous population and their resources. There are no indigenes and the resources belong to no one at present. Pure terra nullius. Or Luna and Area Nullius.
While there aren't any natives to colonize on other worlds in the solar system, I am worried about space colonization from a preservation perspective. We might convert the untouched landscapes of the solar system into mere resources for exploitation, stripping worlds of all that makes them beautiful to be replaced by machines. Its not hurting anyone who lives there, but it could very well hurt the people who will live there. Care should definitely be taken when deciding the limits of space colonization.
while it's used darkly today as a word, the concept of colonization has actually helped 100 times more those indigenous populations many claim to have harmed. Yes there were atrocities committed but the technological benefits and the relative peace and unity (compared to past times in these regions) far outweigh them. And that goes to every single former colony. You can just see the birth rate improvements and calculate them over a period of a decade or two and you'll understand how in that small time frame more humans there have been saved by this than the total human lives that were taken during the colonization process of said area.
I know this might never happen, it might even be crazy talk, but I can't help but imagining these long ass chain of events that would lead to America having a state on the moon. That'd be cool as shit.
Potential alien life should also be brought up. If humanity somehow doesn’t find or run into different species, than like the end of your video we’ll eventually slowly spread and colonize the Galaxy system by system. But if first contact contact is made, than we should consider the possibility of them be hostile or peaceful and maybe even helping us expand.
So, there is a chance that any settlement outside Earth sphere is gonna be ruled by a megacoropration which in the long run will become independent planetary states and in distant future might become a "Sol Federation" or "Sol Confederacy"
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10:30 I also see the UAE by the 2060s/2070s , they seem to really be interested in Mars Perhaps they are a partner to India ? Who knows that far into the future ?
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Maybe we can have a Berlin conference style of dividing the moon and Mars between US, Russia, China, EU, Japan, and India where each get at least some territory on the moon and mars. Maybe some other countries might be invited
That was an amazing breakdown of the current situation in space and love the level headedness you provide! I'm mostly worried about the inequalities that could arise generations in the future if only a handfull of countries controll the infrastructure on the moon and it makes me think that a moon treaty needs to be signed sooner rather than later. I make content about our journey to becoming a Type 1 Civilization, what are your thoughts on the likelyhood of that happening on Earth?
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In the case of a company-made colony, I can imagine the administration being led by an appointed director, answering to an upper house, a board of investors of some sorts, and in place of a lower house some kind of board of workers unions.
Don't kill yourself you don't know what things could happen soon you could be alive to see the first contact with extraterrestrials hell there's so many things to see around the world right now
I am currently working on a review of literature dealing with the space-security/post-colonialism nexus and this just gave me so many ideas! Great video! Are you by any chance Dutch?
You mentioned that rather than direct warfare, they may resort to attacking each other's satellites. If this did happen, such destruction would result in orbital clouds of shrapnel that could pose a hazard to anyone/thing in the region. So essentially, attacking someone else's satellite fleet could destroy your own. Historic leaders have done shallower things though tbh.
It takes far more to do that than you would think. Especially because space is BIG (so big in fact that we've made a _new term_ for it: astronomical) and there is a lot of empty space between things in space.
@@TheTrueAdept he's talking about in orbit you could very easily get a Kessler syndrome scenario because of intersecting orbits and the fact that its very hard to track hundreds of pieces of debris ranging from centimeters in size to meters. It would be sort of like a domino effect of collisions and impacts
Nice video, But I have a couple questions. 1) I doubt we could discover faster than light travel when we colonize our solar system, but what if we found something while we're colonizing other star systems that may lead to that grand discovery? 2) What would you think would happen if we discover alien life?
We have some stuff for faster-than-light travel, so there u have it, its possible when they are done with mars they will head to Venus and ceres and maybe mars moons, or Pluto, charon, hydra, and the other 3 moons of Pluto. What will happen if we encounter aliens is that they will most likely be peaceful and understand because they have encountered us or another alien civilization or they will freak out and try to attack us. Its likely we can bring guns fit for firing cobalt 60.
Agreed. Some of us may not be aware of the coming technological singularity, which will make our current technology grow literally exponentially. If we control our violent impulses towards our own species for long enough, we will probably reach a Type II or Type III civilization at some point much sooner than we expect without A.I.
@@georgeousthegorgeous That's if the A.I decides that it is most rational to help humanity progress. I'm sure it won't straight up, completely think of us as microbes because we are the microbes that were responsible for its existence to begin with. EDIT: But now that I think about it, who's to say that artificial intelligences won't only have enhanced level of intelligence, but also an enhanced level of emotions that might interfere with its rational thinking? I mean, emotions seem to be closely connected to consciousness too.
@@Daniel-ew5qf that's the problem. The best we can do is to create something we can't theoretically control. Also emotional AI is a smart idea, I never even thought about it. Also, if we can't create AI we can unite multiple consciousnesses into one and merge it with computer. Imagine what brightest minds could do with x times their iq and all the information in the world.
@@georgeousthegorgeous I can't exactly predict if good things or bad things will happen, but I can predict that with that level of intelligence, we, or the A.I, will be fully embracing the potential of a sentient lifeform, controlling and affecting the Universe in our-or their-whim. Whatever happens, it's gonna be done in a magnificent, incomprehensible scale. If people with ordinary intelligences like us (compared to superintelligent A.Is) can already imagine stuff like the Kardashev scale and already figure out most of the Universe's laws, then imagine what beings with thousands of times more intelligence can imagine and figure out and strive for.
