in which we can all work together to achieve the kind of space travel
required to reach distant planets.
I think most people think we have stopped evolving, but since
evolution takes such a long time, we won't realize it's happened until
after the fact. I'm hopeful. Okay, call me a dreamer.
On May 18, 2:58 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how accurate they can be in revealing planets enough like
> ours to offer possibilities of a new promised land. They claim there
> is one 20 light years away, or 300,000 years at current space travel
> speeds. One can feel that this at least puts us somewhere near the
> position of 'Columbus'. Our current 'tin-foil' technology won't do,
> but at this kind of distance we are talking about something other than
> worm-holes, 'relativity flight' or the kind of physics in which
> distance is an illusion.
>
> For someone like me who can't take god-stories seriously and quite
> likes the idea of a human future (or at least the idea of evolution
> not just ending through catastrophe), there is an opportunity to
> believe in something distant in time and a need for us to direct
> ourselves towards it. A time, perhaps in which a form of conscious
> life can live very differently from now, and a project worth attaching
> to - perhaps a reason for spirituality. Comments on this or the
> technology welcome.
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