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Originally Posted by AlexKid
No problem, we will have cured aging by then.
We can sling shot around jupiter and get a nice cruising speed on.
All you need is a game-boy to keep you occupied and its problem solved.
If propulsion has not improved to close to the speed of light, it would take many generations to reach habitable worlds-which would mean monstrous sized space ships with liveable areas so that people can be normal-sort of- and not driven crazy. It would mean miniature universities inside the ships to keep knowledge from stultifying. I don't think this is practical....but I'm no astrophysicist/anthropologist/biologist etc and know nothing of whatever human behaviour experts do...
Astronomy these days has found possibly habitable planets, but so far away that it would require a fool-proof system of cryonic suspension as well as the speed above mentioned, PLUS a double-double fool-proof technology to avert space junk, or tiny asteroids, and, most importantly, a super-dooper fool-proof technology to wake up the important people when the right time approaches.
I feel that even though science and technology is progressing by leaps and bounds, there are all too many practices which have progressed very little since the early 1900s, perhaps slicker and faster, but people still have to be opened up like butchers' carcasses to replace clogged arteries etc.
There is a definite limit to longevity -although extended to a finite term only because of better hygiene and antibiotics- an accidental discovery which came into use around in the 1940s and still the best means of fighting certain diseases.
Personally I have arranged for cryonic suspension, and can only hope that it works. I've been a follower of Robert Ettinger ever since I read his wonderful first book, and used to correspond regularly with him, and with his second wife Mae. Real people.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot, I have a feeling-just a feeling mind you- that boxers in 500 years will either be con****uous by their complete absence, due to it having been banned for it's brutality. Alternately, any existing boxers will be clad in fencing style garments with electric sensors able to register "touches", and boxers will be penalised if the "touch" is too hard.......
Originally Posted by AlexKid
No problem, we will have cured aging by then.
We can sling shot around jupiter and get a nice cruising speed on.
All you need is a game-boy to keep you occupied and its problem solved.
If propulsion has not improved to close to the speed of light, it would take many generations to reach habitable worlds-which would mean monstrous sized space ships with liveable areas so that people can be normal-sort of- and not driven crazy. It would mean miniature universities inside the ships to keep knowledge from stultifying. I don't think this is practical....but I'm no astrophysicist/anthropologist/biologist etc and know nothing of whatever human behaviour experts do...
Astronomy these days has found possibly habitable planets, but so far away that it would require a fool-proof system of cryonic suspension as well as the speed above mentioned, PLUS a double-double fool-proof technology to avert space junk, or tiny asteroids, and, most importantly, a super-dooper fool-proof technology to wake up the important people when the right time approaches.
I feel that even though science and technology is progressing by leaps and bounds, there are all too many practices which have progressed very little since the early 1900s, perhaps slicker and faster, but people still have to be opened up like butchers' carcasses to replace clogged arteries etc.
There is a definite limit to longevity -although extended to a finite term only because of better hygiene and antibiotics- an accidental discovery which came into use around in the 1940s and still the best means of fighting certain diseases.
Personally I have arranged for cryonic suspension, and can only hope that it works. I've been a follower of Robert Ettinger ever since I read his wonderful first book, and used to correspond regularly with him, and with his second wife Mae. Real people.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot, I have a feeling-just a feeling mind you- that boxers in 500 years will either be con****uous by their complete absence, due to it having been banned for it's brutality. Alternately, any existing boxers will be clad in fencing style garments with electric sensors able to register "touches", and boxers will be penalised if the "touch" is too hard.......
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