A Warp Drive Is Within Our Reach, Apparently.

[Legion]

Just let me know when I can start booking flights off planet.

It will make the phrase "I don't want to live on this planet any more" have a whole new meaning.

 

[Waffle_Man]

That was really the basis of my argument. Since we know so little beyond the vague scenario, it is impossible to judge how we would react; however, where we differ it would seem is I tend to think humanity would likely engage in violence or tyranny because that is the historical trend while you believe that should such a scenario come to pass we would be beyond the usual petty concerns.

It isn't that I think humanity wouldn't want to act with it's normal petty concerns. My view of how society works isn't optimistic. Rather, my comments were along the lines of being unable to act on petty concerns simply due to the mind boggling practical concerns. But, as both of us have concluded, the scenario doesn't offer enough premises to make that judgement.

Still, the argument has passed, and for all intents and purposes, you've won.

No frustration at all in fact. It was fun

It's good to see that not everyone hates my love of confrontation. (^_^)

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't know . But thinking that we are the most intelligent lifeforme seems quite self-centered and egotistcal to me .

But that doesn't make it any more realistic that they'd be more advanced. There's no telling what is out there.

 

[krazykidd]

I don't know . But thinking that we are the most intelligent lifeforme seems quite self-centered and egotistcal to me .

But that doesn't make it any more realistic that they'd be more advanced. There's no telling what is out there.

That's true , but we are already the most intelligent on Our planet . It's possible , it would just surprise me . And i would let out a " REALLY UNIVERSE? REALLY?" .

 

[EvilMaggot]

I think I read somewhere that if the age of the universe was measured on a clock, we would currently be 2 minutes past midnight on the first day.

What that means, is that the universe is still very young, and that humanity may very well be the first advanced species.

You see all this sci-fi stuff, well it turns out that humanity may be the Vulcans, the Asari. We are the ancient race that discovers younger civilisations

Mind... blown... Never thought of it that way

 

[XMark]

I think we're going to be the super-advanced galaxy-spanning race that mysteriously disappears and leaves relics of our technology for a future race to discover. You know, like, in pretty much every sci-fi thing ever (Forerunners, Protheans, Reapers, Ancients, The Endless, etc)

 

[Ledan]

There is a lot of hate for the human race in this thread -_-....
First contact would be like Leif Erikson and the Americans. Or first portugese to Japan/china. Not so much happens.
Sure, we're not unified but that isn't necessary to colonize space. You don't need to be unified to colonize an island, this is the same on a bigger scale.
Problems we have are probably exemplary of problems sentient creatures will have. With more intelligence you get new problems, so intelligent alien life (that isn't a hivemind) won't necessarily be any more perfect.

 

[Something Amyss]

That's true , but we are already the most intelligent on Our planet . It's possible , it would just surprise me . And i would let out a " REALLY UNIVERSE? REALLY?" .

We're only the third most intelligent species on the planet.