If they’re not as strong then that nuke idea should work

Still won’t convince me to use it

The Project Orion is one example of something we could build with todays tech that could reach a decent percentage of the speed of light. It’d still be a crawl compared to scifi, but it’s achievable

Are we though? The technology exists. The distribution channels exist. We just lack the drive to funnel a huge amount of our global gbp into any longterm project for which we won’t see the reward.

Edit: I think you guys are thinking too short term. If you’re going for a generation ship with todays tech, it’s going to be in the scale of thousands of years between stars with non-stop probe resupplies or tricky asteroid mining operations (tricky because they’ll be traveling a percentage of the speed of light). Project Orion or solar sail powered by laser is currently achievable though extremely impractical for interstellar travel

2050 is too early for any radical change imo. The brink will be normalized and a new one set. Trends that are currently happening are deeply entrenched in the current power structure and have literal world’s worth of resources to keep it going. Everything will be a little more advanced but a little worse socially, and the elite will find a way to keep the masses happy and distracted until they start feeling the pain, which will be much later than we will.

Hard the wrap my head around all of this effort to cut off and sanction Russia only amounting to a 2% deficit. Isn’t the US deficit much much higher?

Because depending on which country you live in, they probably are

It’s a reference to a scene in Matrix. If you haven’t seen it before, highly highly recommend. Could still pass as a modern scifi film.

At this resolution, they can be anything you want them to be. I don’t even see the sprites. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead…

What a time to be alive

Yes. Now we know for certain that if we ever colonize mars, we can still get same day delivery via Amazon drone /s

We had no idea if the atmosphere was thick enough to even support rotor flight. When that chopper left the ground, it was a huge moment for our understanding of our capability for interplanetary colonization.

New record was reaching an altitude of 46 feet (14 meters) and traveling a distance of 50ft over 52 seconds, beating its previous 18 second hop and hover.

Very cool!

I would but I forgot why

Gobble gobble :(

More like “Warhammer 40k Let’s Go”

Interplanetary colony. Can be the most dystopian world imaginable but if we’re able to live off this rock, there’s hope

> great commercial potential

Fantastic. Now I’ll be getting ads in the middle of my loaf of bread

Hey man, If you find an outfit you’re comfortable in and have enough power and wealth that your spouse won’t leave you over it, all power to you.

I guess they missed out on owning Africa when everyone else did < 200 years ago

All of those “strengths” of Chinas can be explained by centuries of oppressive authoritarianism. If African nations want to go/continue down that route, that’s fine, but it’s not the best foundation for a humanitarian society, which has to count for something

With the amount of untapped resources the continent has, I have no doubt that the African West Coast of the 22nd century will see a similar dramatic climb in power and wealth like China has experienced this century. Hopefully they’ll be able to implement some of our lessons learned with rapid industrialization and implement green fuels, building practices, and sustainable farming early in its growth.

Chinas extensive financial interest in many of these developing nations will also be interesting to follow as Africa grows its own influence.

Appeasement has rarely ever worked: just postpones a confrontation or depends on internal change doing the job for you