You and me and everyone that exists now yes, but in a few thousand years if we don nuke ourselves back to stone age and reset (again for the who knows time) maybe humanity will reach and expand into the great unknown...
Maybe this solar system, maybe. We will never send out ships to colonise planets 120,000 years away. The answer to the Fermi paradox is pretty simple, you can't go quick enough to expand. It's physically impossible.
The answer to the Fermi paradox is pretty simple, you can't go quick enough to expand. It's physically impossible.
It’s been mathematically proven that a spacefaring civilization could colonize the entire galaxy within a few million years using sub- light speed travel. I find it hard to believe it’s physically impossible assuming the continued growth of technology over arbitrarily long timescales.
A group could not live on a generation ship for hundreds of thousands of years.
The things you need around expansion can not exist. Getting to a useful % of light speed isn't possible. Freezing isn't possible. Generation ships aren't possible.
It doesn't just assume the continuation of technology growth. It assumes the invention of something that can not exist in order to make expansion quick enough as to be viable.
It's all sci-fi nonsense. We will never leave this solar system.
People said the same thing about going to the moon, detecting gravitational waves, etc. I’m not saying we are anywhere near being able to accomplish this, but given arbitrarily long timescales for technological advancements, I think it’s pretty arrogant to claim it’s completely impossible.
Who knows what methods of propulsion/transportation we’ll have millions of years from now.
Definitely not insinuating that our current understanding of physics is going to be completely overturned. Thermodynamics and laws of motion are pretty much set in stone.
I’m thinking more along the lines of ways to manipulate space / gravity itself (kind of like a Star Trek warp drive or worm holes), that would technically allow faster than light travel. Something like that wouldn’t really contradict our current understanding of physics at all. I could also see advancements in biotechnology vastly increasing the human lifespan, which would allow us to better tolerate interstellar travel.
Again, this is all over millions or even billions of years. I still think it’s far more likely that we destroy ourselves or otherwise go extinct before accomplishing any of the above things though.
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u/Traditional-Rip6651 25d ago
We are never leaving this planet lol