Books to help you cope with the fact that despite standing at the precipice of what could possibly be the single most important step ever taken in the history of this entire universe, the colonization of space, the spread of sentient life to other worlds, our contemptible species is still so caught up in the meandering struggles of our pointless day to day lives as individuals and as groups that we are hardly able to spare even a fraction of our output to advancement? With the fact that this billion-headed amalgamous chimera that we compose is ruled by caprice and whim rather than careful planning and any progress that does happen is incidental and scrounged up off the scraps others were not able to steal for themselves? The fact that trying to impose order and set a course upon this mass of flesh might very well make things worse than they already are? That we are such deficient beings that we cannot do any better? Be more than the sum of our parts? Transcend our condition? Any books to help you cope with that?
Man that’s a lot of words
>>25280294why, so you can put the recs on the pile of things you will surely get around to reading some day?
>the colonization of spacePipe dream
>>25280412This. You would have to travel faster than the speed of light which isn’t going to happen but also have a craft capable of surviving that speed and maneuvering around space debris and obstacles and that speed AND have enough fuel or energy to get up to/sustain that speed. Mars alone would be a feat, and there really isn’t much there. The whole thing is just more capitalist profiteering we aren’t going to space, there’s nothing there if even if we did or could. We’re earthbound and slaves
>>25280412Okay so you can try and possibly have a chance at succeeding or not try at all and be guaranteed the same outcome as failure.
>Dude, we FINALLY saw the other side of the MOON! INTERSTELLAR COLONIES SOON!You're delusional as fuck.
>>25280426Your soul is weighed down by gravity, bugman.
How you gonna BREEF on Mars nigguh?! Terraforming is SCIENCE FICTION CUZZ
>>25280294Can you stop making the same thread 1,000 times? Do you want me to kick you in the balls?
>>25280427Space is an overhyped resource sink. It would be far easier and more useful to colonize the ocean floor, but nobody talks about that because the Americans and the Soviets never got into a dick measuring contest over it.
>>25280523That does nothing to perpetuate life. If you manage to colonize across interstellar distances even just a couple times you start a chain reaction.
>>25280535>That does nothing to perpetuate lifeI have no interest in that. I care about what benefits me right now. I don't give a fuck about the far future because I will be dead.
>>25280549At the end of history, you will be judged accordingly.
>>25280577No, I won't.
>>25280577>>25280580posting from 3311, we really hate that anon
>>25280412>looooool WTF are you guys doing???? don't you know it's physically impossible to cross the Atlantic? read Aristotle the science is settled chuds! you will all die of dehydration!
>weak flesh jello thinks he's going to colonize spacebest scenario is AI progresses far enough to build self-replicating robotic space swarms that are able, on time scales multiple orders of magnitude greater than the entire existence of the homo genus, to colonize portions of space when homo sapiens will be long extinct
BibleZarathustraWe should colonize but your attitude is nihilistic escapist retard shit.>muh pointless meandering struggle>if only there were cool rocketships and lasers then I wouldn't be a faggotWithout external opposition the organism decays, the decay creates new external threats and the organism hardens again to overcome them. The biggest existential threat is globohomo AI solving all our material problems forever making us slowly turn into useless flesh blobs that have no reason to do anything including asking the AI to make us cool space boys with lasers. Asteroids or nukes would only harden and revitalize the survivors.
>>25280535A chain reaction like that is not really possible unless technology and people both advance beyond recognition. And we probably have to do it before the oil runs out. I'm not hopeful.
>>25280601This universe is unbearable as it is. The only way of escape is to break nature, and remake it in our image.
>>25280294Space is fake, idiot
>>25280613You will break long before nature does nature is rhe only truth and science is the identification of nature’s truths
>>25280620I don't care if that is the case, there is nothing else to do.
>>25280613You are humanity's only real adversary, the satan. Global nuclear war is nothing compared to the spirit that possesses you.
>>25280426This ignores the more important fact that your soul and life force are tied to Mother Earth and when you go too far it dissipates. Humans cannot exist beyond the moon. Only robots.
>>25280637Aww yeah we schizo thread now
>>25280633Begone superstitionist. Back to the dust of the past.
>>25280633Evil is stillness. Any philosophy that preaches acceptance preaches death and injustice.
>>25280644That was a secular rational description of what you are, the only real adversary of humanity.
>>25280637They will become something else but I would still count them as human as long as they have the force of will to struggle and grow. If meanwhile the people of earth stop struggling and become meat blobs with no will to do anything the moonmen will be the only humans left.
>>25280664I will NOT live in a mud hut. I will NOT eat the bugs. I will NOT shit in a hole. I will NOT die of malaria at age 20. I WILL live in a house with AC and plumbing. I WILL eat spaghetti bolognese. I WILL choose civilization.
>>25280675The reasons why you won't matter. If you're striving to be better (closer to God) it's good but if you're doing it to escape struggle you'll create a world with no spaghetti, just fent.
>>25280738>>25280644
>>25280675Its not a dichotomy. You can have civilization. You can also have a country without smelly migrants and jews infesting everything.
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>>25280759It's evolutionary biology and Nietzsche but in parenthesis using the language that most triggers your fragile media conditioned nigger brain.
All of human civilization has been a earnest drive to get as far away form Nature as possible because Nature actually kind of sucks ass to live in.
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>>25280796sort of, but it has always felt incomplete without some sort of park/ garden
>>25280294Space isnt real
>cope this, cope thatYou're lame.
>Puts sage in the name field Dumbass newfaggot.>Le... ALL FIELDS!!Idiot.
>>25280294Why is the colonisation of space the most important step in human history? This idea is nothing more than a form of coping with the crushing meaninglessness and drudgery of reality. You're worse than a drug user because at least the druggie will admit he's coping, whereas you delude yourself with notions like historical importance. Nothing is important, nothing is worth anything, life in space will be just as shit as earth.
>>25280796The sentiment expressed by OP and the idea of the exploring Faustian spirit generally is rooted in a dissatisfaction with the excesses and meaninglessness of civilised life. OP wants to impose physical hardship, uncertainty, and scarcity upon himself via space exploration because he himself feels this same dissatisfaction. It's totally the opposite of what you say. Living in nature doesn't suck, civilisation does.>>25280675>t. deeply suicidal officer worker who takes SSRIs to cope
>>25282172The best civilization and technology level possible would probably be something like the classic Greeks had except with baseball.Fuck I love baseball.
>>25282157Because just maybe mind can triumph over matter, but this all hedges on our success now. If we are the only species able to set off the process, then it is our moral duty to use every means and resource at our disposal to do so.
nigga i posted as soon as you made this thread. i wonder when they'll tell you.
