What's with this recent hopium trend where people seem to think that we'll become a space-faring utopia?

  • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    this is what happens when people take too many creative writing classes and not one science one,

    • Irockasingranite [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I've never taken a writing class, and I do general relativity as my day job. What does that say about me?

      • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        oh my im sorry i just feel like everyone here is super pumped on philosophy, history, writing etc and so everytime you have to debate soemthing from science nobody is prepared and they get out these fake-deep considerations which make me cringe a bit, i thought you were part of that crowd

        what jobe has you have to take in consideration GR daily? other than physics teacher/scientist, what, orbital eletronics?

        • Irockasingranite [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          No worries, I might have gone to hard on the prose there. The issue of desyncronization is a real problem, though, and it puts a hard limit on the coherence of any hypothetical multi-system civilization.

          I'm doing a PhD in theoretical physics right now, specializing in numerical general relativity, i.e. black hole/neutron star/gravitational wave simulations. So, nowhere near as useful as orbital electronics.