• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Are you a round earth nutter?

    It’s not going to happen. No one is going to get past the edge of the world or sail the whole world or find new land.

    Ever.

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      1 day ago

      If you don’t see how that’s a completely dumb comparison, this is hopeless. I’m reality-based, you are not.

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        1 day ago

        Sure, friend. You can see reality thousands of years into the future and know exactly what happens.

        My bad.

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          24 hours ago

          Do you think physics and chemistry have changed in some significant way over the last thousand years?

          Yet somehow, YOU can see reality in a thousand years, and it matches the sci-fi mindrot you watched as a kid…

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            23 hours ago

            Yes? Not the principles behind them, but our understanding of them as a species.

            You’re a boring doomer who thinks humans will never find, create, or invent something we’ve never done before? Seriously? What kind of boring hill is that to die on?

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              23 hours ago

              Uh, it’s called “reality” my friend, try it.

              You can’t “invent” your way out of fundamental physical limits.

              A Boeing 747 looks the same in 1969 as it does today. It still flies over the Atlantic in six hours burning kerosene in turbofan engines.

              Sure, you can get a few percent here, a few percent there, but do you think suddenly we’ll have warp drive?

              Come on. Do you know how empty and huge space is?

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                22 hours ago

                Nope, you’re right. We know everything there is to ever know and nothing will ever change. We’ve peaked as a species, there is literally nowhere else to go from here.

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                  21 hours ago

                  Oh OK, the only logical counterpoint is we’re going to space.

                  Wheeee!!! Dibs on Neptune!