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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 12:16 am
(August 6, 2015 at 9:40 am)mh.brewer Wrote: What one technological, science, social, political........ advance would you like to have happen that would benefit humanity. For instance cost effective desalinization, safer nuclear power generation, agricultural breakthrough. Feel free to give more than one. Just wondering.
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Thanks. Terraforming. The ability to build a new earth.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 12:20 am
(August 10, 2015 at 12:10 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Like others have said, fusion power. That's a world changer. Climate change goes away and large-scale desalination of seawater becomes practical.
A working space elevator is a close second.
We have fusion power. Big fucking yellow thing in the sky. All we need is the ambition to build something like the power stations from many Isaac asimov stories. The is mostly there or can be developed, all we need is ambition. Hell we have generations of the brightest minds that grew up dreaming of shit like that, its like catnip for them, all we need to give them resources.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 12:21 am
Enough computing power and input data to allow accurate prediction of ecological effects of human activity in a timely enough fashion to make rational decisions regarding that activity.
And the political will to listen to the answers.
And enough compassion to let some of the other inhabitants of the globe live.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 1:39 am
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(August 10, 2015 at 12:16 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: (August 6, 2015 at 9:40 am)mh.brewer Wrote: What one technological, science, social, political........ advance would you like to have happen that would benefit humanity. For instance cost effective desalinization, safer nuclear power generation, agricultural breakthrough. Feel free to give more than one. Just wondering.
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Thanks. Terraforming. The ability to build a new earth.
I know there are alot of planets out there that could be habitable, but aren't they super far away from Earth?
Also, the creation of Megaman X would surely bring about a peaceful era. Ignore what happens in the Zero series.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 1:48 am
Yes. There is also the likely hood that they have their own biosphere's and that would make conservation and suitability an issue. No what I think we should do is colonize yes, but because plausible planets are so rare I think we should learn how to make earths. Mars will make a good place to start.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 10, 2015 at 1:51 am
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(August 10, 2015 at 1:48 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Yes. There is also the likely hood that they have their own biosphere's and that would make conservation and suitability an issue. No what I think we should do is colonize yes, but because plausible planets are so rare I think we should learn how to make earths. Mars will make a good place to start.
That would take hundreds of years. No government is going to want to put that much money into it, even if it were to mean saving the species. Not saying I'm against it, I'm just being pessimistic about it I guess.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 11, 2015 at 6:18 pm
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Since everyone took my original answer, I'll say near lightspeed to FTL travel. A way for us to leave our solar system and go to others in a relatively (see what I did there?  ) short amount of time.
EDIT: Next best idea - needleless immunizations.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 11, 2015 at 6:52 pm
We've had needleless immunizations for decades but they're usually only used in places where people are immunized in bulk. Military basic training centers have them. It's a gun-like device with a hose to a machine. It is placed against your shoulder and when the trigger is pulled, the liquid is forced in under pressure. It's a non-portable version of the hypos on Star Trek.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 11, 2015 at 10:15 pm
(August 10, 2015 at 1:51 am)McDoogins Wrote: (August 10, 2015 at 1:48 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Yes. There is also the likely hood that they have their own biosphere's and that would make conservation and suitability an issue. No what I think we should do is colonize yes, but because plausible planets are so rare I think we should learn how to make earths. Mars will make a good place to start.
That would take hundreds of years. No government is going to want to put that much money into it, even if it were to mean saving the species. Not saying I'm against it, I'm just being pessimistic about it I guess.
I don't know much about the subject yet ( no one really does I suspect) but yes while it would take a long time most of that time would simply be waiting. Once your done shaping the planetiod and inducing a magnetic field it would be akin to making wine. We would be using natural processes for our own ends. With a whole lot of simply waiting.
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RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 12, 2015 at 4:45 am
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