I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
Easier not to think beyond dinner. Or just not to think.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
If you put tackling covid against the fact we are potentially on track to make the planet uninhabitable in very short order…
It’s deckchairs on the titanic stuff.
We will just make Earth uninhabitable for Humans for a period. Earth will be fine and life will evolve again. It might not be after an asteroid strike though.
Current risk is about once every 66 million years.
OK, until then, what about a Zombie apocalypse?
Fair enough. You should have said that in the first place.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
If you put tackling covid against the fact we are potentially on track to make the planet uninhabitable in very short order…
It’s deckchairs on the titanic stuff.
We will just make Earth uninhabitable for Humans for a period. Earth will be fine and life will evolve again. It might not be after an asteroid strike though.
Current risk is about once every 66 million years.
OK, until then, what about a Zombie apocalypse?
Fair enough. You should have said that in the first place.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I was thinking more of the 5 great extinction events, in each of which between 75% and 96% of all life was wiped out. All long before there were any apes, uppity or otherwise.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I was thinking more of the 5 great extinction events, in each of which between 75% and 96% of all life was wiped out. All long before there were any apes, uppity or otherwise.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I was thinking more of the 5 great extinction events, in each of which between 75% and 96% of all life was wiped out. All long before there were any apes, uppity or otherwise.
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I was thinking more of the 5 great extinction events, in each of which between 75% and 96% of all life was wiped out. All long before there were any apes, uppity or otherwise.
The next extinction event may be caused by human activity. We can only hope that is averted and nothing else happens.
Not before you've died of more conventional causes. This sort of fatalism is so pathetic. "oh look it's so bad, I'm going to appear concerned, but I'll be f*cked if I do anything about it".
I say this following my recent reading of a few books and with no real authority but it really tests the mind! (well, my mind anyway).
I decided some while ago that my brain isn't even close to being big enough to comprehend the universe in any meaningful way, so I just let it get on with it while I think about much more mundane matters such as potholes and what I'm going to eat for dinner.
We are replacing Creation with... err the big bang [creation] and even mapped out the end of the Universe in x billion years. Do you see the correlation? Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical. After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust. The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
What makes you think it isn't screwed?
It's coped with far worse than a few uppity apes.
Sure. When al the uppity apes are dead than it just might recover.
I was thinking more of the 5 great extinction events, in each of which between 75% and 96% of all life was wiped out. All long before there were any apes, uppity or otherwise.
The next extinction event may be caused by human activity. We can only hope that is averted and nothing else happens.
Not before you've died of more conventional causes. This sort of fatalism is so pathetic. "oh look it's so bad, I'm going to appear concerned, but I'll be f*cked if I do anything about it".
Pardon? Hoping it is averted is a fairly positive outlook. Going to Mars is far more fatalistic.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Oh Musk is a pr!ck, but I hate this sort of concerned-but-won't-do-anything-about-it stuff.
Throwing your arms up and going "pfft, isn't everyone else awful?"
So, what are you doing?
Bet my entire career that the world gets serious about the energy transition. In my little corner of a corner of the market, I am exclusively focused on sustainability.
Oh Musk is a pr!ck, but I hate this sort of concerned-but-won't-do-anything-about-it stuff.
Throwing your arms up and going "pfft, isn't everyone else awful?"
So, what are you doing?
Bet my entire career that the world gets serious about the energy transition. In my little corner of a corner of the market, I am exclusively focused on sustainability. I spend a lot of time thinking about it when i'm on the plane...
Oh Musk is a pr!ck, but I hate this sort of concerned-but-won't-do-anything-about-it stuff.
Throwing your arms up and going "pfft, isn't everyone else awful?"
So, what are you doing?
Bet my entire career that the world gets serious about the energy transition. In my little corner of a corner of the market, I am exclusively focused on sustainability. I spend a lot of time thinking about it when i'm on the plane...
What can I say, I've actually put my money where my mouth is. Servicing companies which are doing something proactive around sustainability, the energy transition and other responsible behaviour. Even better, I've set this whole new area in my business up from scratch. So anything and everything we do in this space is down to me.
That's better than 99% of people who sit there whining about the world ending because of human behaviour but not doing anything proactive about it themselves.
Go wang on about all your various porsches and how everyone else is a hypocrite. That'll help.
Or... work on rewilding projects, I'll be doing more tree planting later this week, 'tis the season. Put PVs on the roof, export surplus to the grid, cut down mains gas usage. Etc. That's para mi.
I've cut my car usage down from of 25k miles year to under 10k. Plus cut home energy use. Repair instead of replace, recycle where necessary. Etc, etc...
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
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Do you see the correlation?
Humans are constrained by being born, living and then dying. I don't think anyone can think outside of that and I don't think anyone has a brain that can truly comprehend the 'universe'. So much of the BBT is based on multiple hypotheticals. Physics or any science holds little value when based on more than one hypothetical.
After all, the light patterns, frequencies and back ground radiation we study are so very, very old. Think that a star out there that we see may not even exist anymore.
The furthest man has been from the earth is a tiny distance and we are just presumptive, arrogant specs of dust.
The hundred of millions that Space x has cost could have been far better spent on preserving this wonderful orb. Rockets are like internal combustion engines in that they are nothing revolutionary, so the latest firework is not a leap forward in technology and in it's current form, will never allow man to travel long distances.
Watching the second space X rocket go bang is sheer poetry; a futile pursuit orchestrated by a silly man on his quest to be immortal.
I'll stop there.
Oh, I don't mind people wanting to find out - I found CERN fascinating with their quest to find stuff that particle theorists have, erm, theorised about... knowledge for the sake of knowledge, though maybe with some useful application (for instance, nuclear energy must have been born of that sort of quest). just that I know I'm too stupid to understand or care one way or another. I'm glad that there are people who have better & bigger brains that me (not least as the world would be screwed if there weren't).
Easier not to think beyond dinner. Or just not to think.
Really, does anyone on here really think their thoughts matter on a world scale?
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Then there are those who certainly think their thoughts matter.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Best to keep this planet pleasant.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
https://ourworldindata.org/mass-extinctions
Earth isn't as benign as all that.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
We can only hope that is averted and nothing else happens.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Going to Mars is far more fatalistic.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Throwing your arms up and going "pfft, isn't everyone else awful?"
I am not sure. You have no chance.
That's better than 99% of people who sit there whining about the world ending because of human behaviour but not doing anything proactive about it themselves.
Go wang on about all your various porsches and how everyone else is a hypocrite. That'll help.
I am not sure. You have no chance.