Humans will never go past Mars
Humans will never go past Mars
Space is really spread out, and we will forever lack the means to get around it fast. Space also happens to be highly inhospitable to human life. For these reasons, I submit that no human will ever go farther than Mars.
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give it 200-1000 years
If we can’t figure out global warming and frequent wars, there’s no way we’ll make it.
As far as war, as we make it unprofitable that should help
Could we make a global treaty that says wars are illegal? If you start a war, the rest of the world will boycott you for 100 years.
because collective punishment has worked so well thus far?
Option B: Those who violate the treaty get chocolate pudding for dessert.
Can you come up with a better solution? It’s not a high bar to clear.
anyone capable of starting a war will be dead 100 years later, you are quite literally talking about punishing people who had nothing to do with it.
solution: Abolish the nation state and anyone who isn't involved gets chocolate pudding for dessert.
Treaties and boycotts are uses of power. But power corrupts due to the survival of the selfish. Break the wheel!
That is true. Well, I’m out of options. As long as humans are greedy and arrogant, there’s no clean way to solve this problem. All of my ideas involve using power one way or another.
What if there was a technology that publishes the face of any murderer? (including soldiers) and bans them from my social network
Or a technology that allows a refugee to trade in everything they own and set up elsewhere without their livelihood being stolen?