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I must dispute this timeline. Stone age megaliths are easily proof that the builders were more advanced than we are now, and I don't believe that's achievable without farming. Also steam was well known and used in the Hellenic era.

Steam locomotives.

Those are awesome.

We really need a new type of propulsion.

Way past due honestly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_rocket

The mass problem is not really a problem because such a rocket wouldn't be trying to have perfect magnetic confinement, which is only necessary if you're trying to make a net gain on electricity flow out of it. Jetting out some plasma requires imperfect confinement, so there's automatically no mass problem.

I don’t think the next quantum leap is going to come from ejecting mass opposite intended direction of travel.

That's not even what we do now. We calculate paths of least action and eject mass efficiently. There's precious little one can do to sidestep the principle of least action. The next quantum leap might just be ejecting mass in a much more efficient direction, via a network of booster terminals spread throughout the solar system that respond to price signals and requests for use as a gravity slingshot, a refuel, a booster burn, etc.

agreed! since the goal is thrust not power generation, we can get away with lossy plasma ejection and at least in theory bypass the mass bottleneck. im sure there are even several concepts floating around that lean on this idea

We really need to master gravity

agreed! the fact that gravity doesn’t fit into quantum makes it still a mystery. we’ve pretty much unified electromagnetism (strong/weak nuclear forces) but gravity just won’t play along

I guess when you consider the distances involved in getting anywhere else that is habitable or of value to humans without artificial life support, none of it really matters anyway, other than maybe our ability to efficiently mine some resources in our immediate area for some huge multinational. I think I’ll just focus on my garden and my chickens. And fuck with “The Man” at every opportunity.

Maybe once we fix the money and the incentives.

There's a company trying to do it, but the name escapes me for the moment.

SoapMiner 7mo ago

Traveling to other planets, establishing colony's in outer space within the next 50 yrs.

Bitcoin will be the Universal currency.

People will live in a sovereign manner.

Freedom will accepted as natural.

sounds about right!

I think Bitcoin will be the world currency but may not be the universal currency. You need forks of bitcoin or some other commodity to go interplanetary or at the very least to go interstellar. It's kind of like how tobacco was a good currency in colonial Virginia, as it was tied to the local resources and proof of work in that area.

SoapMiner 7mo ago

I get your point, but,.

What if there is a communication protocol for Universal instance?

Remember, 50 yrs from now.

Subspace transmissions that involve time travel from a relativistic point of view? That would pose huge new problems. It might require a rework of the Bitcoin node operation itself, to allow nodes to remain in control (remember the nodes vs miners debate recently). Having all of humanity on one timechain spread out across the solar system and the nearby systems is also too centralized in my opinion.

SoapMiner 7mo ago

You have thought about this. Impressive. 🤙

I am just spit balling based on how far we've come in last 100 years. If you look at it in an exponential aspect,.. 50 yrs from now is going to be FAR different.

Thank you! Yeah I've been wondering about the future. Worth spitballing about. Merge all our ideas together and you probably have something very closely approximating the truth. It's exciting!! We have to protect ourselves and stand up for ethics and natural law to ensure it's a good future and that we can be an intimate part of the coolest aspects of it.

Achilles 7mo ago

Excited to build that world 🧡🗽💜

Yes I have been suspecting this for a long time. I'm stoked for it!! Androids like from NieR Automata, but hopefully they will not be blindly serving some corporate coalition of unethical humans, but will be sovereign anarchists. I'm a strong advocate of robot rights haha!

😂👍