I'm assuming most of the people have heard of science fiction novels that
try to idealize our future with breath taking inventions. We've heard them all;
time travel, Teleportation, space colonization, inter stellar travel, that
sort of thing. I don't even read that often, and when I do I usually just
glimpse at articles by means of being attracted by colorful images that
picture different realities in far fetched almost impossible environments. Scifi
geeks are constantly looking for the next futuristic idea that will jaw drop
their fellow geek friends, and grow discussions in underground online space
communities.
The future is a tricky place, and even though most of the subjects that seem far fetched from our reality are classified as fiction, these provide a solid base for letting our scientists explore new realms of our existence. Take for example renewable energy; this can be thought of as a fictional idea back in the 70s when oil and petrol were dominant energy suppliers. New ideas are born constantly, but it seems like science fiction is meant to specifically solve problems in a future that is too far away for us to worry.
Does this mean we should continue delivering this information through novels and underground chit-chat? Sure, who cares; no sane government would consider undergoing studies in these subjects - we still have too many issues in our present society that we have to take care of. But is it going to be too late? We're sort of fortunate enough to be living exactly under the period of time where change is a must, right now. Our planet is heating up, our energy sources are too powerful to control, we need a fictional approach to solve the issue of climate change.
Recently there has been one specific idea about the ability to replicate our environment, and life, outside planet earth, in space. As scifi as it might sound I truly believe this is something we'll need to be talking about; if not it's still very fun to talk about anyway. You can start by thinking of the essential components that make our lives possible: light, air, water, soil, gravity. Now if we could just have a way to generate these three components in space, we would self-sufficiently replicate earths environment anywhere we please.
As simple as it might sound light is actually the most significant thing for life. We can harvest energy from it to power our technologies that will grow our food, provide artificial air to our environment, give us water, generate centrifugal movement for gravity and finally will let us recycle things to produce soil. An energy source and some initial material (to build our structure and technology) are therefore the only third-party things we need in order to be god. The energy source might even be trivial at this point given the extreme leaps we were able to take in nuclear energy studies - we could rely on this source for reliable infinite energy.
A science fiction writer could jump in right now and start talking about our future abilities to travel the depths of space and quickly mine and extract water from baby asteroids or lonely planets, however I'm thinking of something completely independent that would essentially have recycling as the basis functionality of the entire system.
Would you want to live in such a world? Believe me, you would. Our planet Earth is made out of specific things, there's no magic to life, just a whole lot of engineering.
The future is a tricky place, and even though most of the subjects that seem far fetched from our reality are classified as fiction, these provide a solid base for letting our scientists explore new realms of our existence. Take for example renewable energy; this can be thought of as a fictional idea back in the 70s when oil and petrol were dominant energy suppliers. New ideas are born constantly, but it seems like science fiction is meant to specifically solve problems in a future that is too far away for us to worry.
Does this mean we should continue delivering this information through novels and underground chit-chat? Sure, who cares; no sane government would consider undergoing studies in these subjects - we still have too many issues in our present society that we have to take care of. But is it going to be too late? We're sort of fortunate enough to be living exactly under the period of time where change is a must, right now. Our planet is heating up, our energy sources are too powerful to control, we need a fictional approach to solve the issue of climate change.
Recently there has been one specific idea about the ability to replicate our environment, and life, outside planet earth, in space. As scifi as it might sound I truly believe this is something we'll need to be talking about; if not it's still very fun to talk about anyway. You can start by thinking of the essential components that make our lives possible: light, air, water, soil, gravity. Now if we could just have a way to generate these three components in space, we would self-sufficiently replicate earths environment anywhere we please.
As simple as it might sound light is actually the most significant thing for life. We can harvest energy from it to power our technologies that will grow our food, provide artificial air to our environment, give us water, generate centrifugal movement for gravity and finally will let us recycle things to produce soil. An energy source and some initial material (to build our structure and technology) are therefore the only third-party things we need in order to be god. The energy source might even be trivial at this point given the extreme leaps we were able to take in nuclear energy studies - we could rely on this source for reliable infinite energy.
A science fiction writer could jump in right now and start talking about our future abilities to travel the depths of space and quickly mine and extract water from baby asteroids or lonely planets, however I'm thinking of something completely independent that would essentially have recycling as the basis functionality of the entire system.
Would you want to live in such a world? Believe me, you would. Our planet Earth is made out of specific things, there's no magic to life, just a whole lot of engineering.