In your estimation. Is it off the cuff, where you actually look at psychology, have you looked at medicine, have you looked at making it possible instead of saying it isn't? Have you looked at any numbers? Have you looked at methodologies? Have you looked at the parenting problem?. All of these things are actually solvable. You want to know what's not solvable? Violence-based capitalism.

EDIT: the short hand is you believe humans are too stupid to grow up, so it's not possible. Would that be a fair assessment?

Would be nice to get rid of nations. Move to a World administration model.

In terms of our microbes spreading around, it becomes a science policy question.

Social progress is being held back by the work of Adam Smith, and the Puritan belief that idle hands are the devil's hands.

In 1982, America threw out 40% of the food it served. In the same year and for 3 decades, America alone spent as much celebrating Christmas as it would take to feed the world per capita a very rich diet for a full year. That's just one example. We are a wealthy species and our society does not reflect it.

I don't wanna talk tech. The people are what need therapy and help.

Edit consider the pace of technology advancement versus the pace of social progress.

Edit yes I understand Von Neumann Machines.

Grinz. I'm more focused on current species problems. Parenting that no longer works, economies that no longer makes sense, politics that is no longer relevant. :-) I'm thinking about ∆V at the sociological level and flat out moving to post scarcity today and finish in 40 years.

You want to play celestial billiards by using bigger and bigger fly-by. You want to use 200 big asteroids to perturb Mercury the right direction?. Welp, you don't think small. I'm assuming you need a world government to pull this off?

I agree with everything you've said. I would add one caveat. We haven't really tried to terraform, with realistic amounts of resource applied. You'd need a significant amount of resources to actually attempt remediation. Resources equivalent to a significant percentage of worldwide military expenditure for 5-10 years.

You'd need a world government.

I don't think you can toss the masses around as casually as you think you can. You want to move planets? That's some immense values snd vectors of P you're going to need to change. How do you apply the ∆ V? I don't know the otder of magnitude of energy needed, but you'd probably need to convert solar energy into something that reshapes orbit.

It's still not as good ss it gets, but yeah. Good that you cried. :-)

Allah hu Akbar indeed. :-) is your God in space?

Yes. Forget the capitalst framework stuff. Capitalism is not good.

Yes. World wide, per capita.

We don't know either way. All we have right now are theory and some observations that don't violate all the theories.

I'm hoping down the road, we reserve sex for pleasure and put foeti in artificial wombs. Would relieve a ton of social pressures.

We just don't yet know. About distribution of moons, etc.

Sorry kid. We have lots of theories. But we do not know. If, in your travels, you meet some entity that does, we'd like to know. Worship costs extra.

This one.

Just BTW, in theory, we could use the steam transition in forming O'Neill colonies. They're still impractical today, but I have hopes. :-)

Turn around, I'm your choir. My body has been trying to suicide without permission since I was 39. I've been sick the whole way...but I'm 61 :-)

Yup. Cancer survivor. Sugar level is a known problem, and "death starts in the colon." The above is the deal.

I wouldn't think so...?

Grinz. God doesn't need my belief. I don't need god's either, unless god decides to tell me different personally. Which is perfectly fine. In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out what humans are capable of. Can we move from fear forward? Can we finally stop caring if labradors mate with poodles? We're all humans, and we should behave to each other as such.

That it exists. That i exist within it, or at least it feels that way. I can experience pleasure, i can experience and (theoretically) learn from experience. I can enjoy the company of others.

I am satisfied with my experience within this universe, all the pains and pleasures. :-)

OP why do people point at God when they don't understand stuff? Are you deeply religious in some way?

I'm not required to understand the universe to enjoy my experience in it, not that I can tell. If you believe, why tell us? And if you don't believe, why tell us?

I'm legit starting to crack at the edges about humans and what they believe, does it show? :-). Genderless dude, I am truly glad that you feel good about something you believe. But it's your belief, and that's a private thing, no?

Um. Okay. And you are telling us this because...?

Ha. The elevator mount includes a layup maneuver. Catch the hook at Angels 20?