I'd be very surprised if we have humans on Mars within the next 100 years.
Not to be destroy anyones dreams here (kek! It's the Elon thread!) But if we can't even go to the moon
with ease today with all the available tech. It legit looks very bleak and I'm not even talking about the /x/ "fake moonlanding" memes here. I do think we got tech to get
rovers up if we really want to, but we simply lack human competence, which is why I think Elon and other tech giants think will be solved with AI and invests heavily into it (just like every other industry facing the
competence crisis). AI won't solve shit. IDK if any STEM faggots are in this thread, but education and it's containing (non-pozzed) knowledge is being forgotten and
literally rotting away with the boomers. AI can read a text and a book in a voice
for you, but not understand it... humans are still the connection between numbers and the physical world to set up the context. This connection about numbers and the real world is being lost with the generation who grew up with phones and tablets.
If we can't even make
stable software and hardware for everyday tasks (as well as being less convoluted), making stable systems for life-supporting projects is not feasible I think. The only way we can start "having humans on Mars today" is if we simply treat them like soviet space dogs a.k.a just fucking shooting them up and hope they make it.
In short: Mars? Now!? Fuhgeddaboudit!
It will inherently have exploitative mechanisms. Right now, people are locked out of certain services because of not having a smartphone or not wanting to download some bullshit app...but this time it's inside your own body. I hope you renew your heart's subscription before your credit card expires.
I'm
very aware of this nature, and I honsetly think that technology has
already peaked (if you look at
productivity vs. computer usage). I will never trust a computer to be inside me if I can't even trust my desktop PC to open up an document. But to be a little cheeky about it, all tech isn't "digital" and there might be some stuff that we haven't discovered yet that might be a
"one time implementation, run forever" thing, but again... I'm just dreaming and being naive on that part, I know it's very unlikely for this to exist.
I have no interest in going to other planets until we figure out our shit here on Earth first. We've got about a billion years before the increase in the sun's luminosity becomes a problem so plenty of time to address things here.
I came to the same conclision too. If we can't
take care of this place first, then we won't be able to fix the next one (we will face the same issues there, assuming we find something that we can work with). It's peak nigger mentality to just leave a shithole hoping the next one isn't and then ruining it due to the same problem we got here.