Seems we need to do some evolving first in order to comprehend a world 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 <[email protected]> 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.
