Astronomy usually has that kind of "Lovecraftian" sense of cosmic insignificance when you put things to sacale. Also, being alone at 3am in the middle of nowhere, cold and kind of sleepy, looking at a gas cloud lightyears away, adds to it. But it is also fascinating.
honestly the times I was on a proper telescope, I was shitting myself making sure I made the most of the time going down my list of targets and not getting something wrong and pointing at the wrong star or getting the wrong setting. that and the daemon that had to be restarted every half an hour or so because it crashed. I did not have the energy or time for philosophy. I guess that's the difference between the phd student and the professor haha!
I'm quite hopeful that anyone under 40 (arbitrary, mostly because I'm in my mid-30s) will get to LEV (longevity escape velocity) - there's a ton of anti-ageing and disease-curing research going on, especially now with the likes of DeepMind and others accelerating said research.
That's assuming you manage to avoid death from microplastics, climate change or AI-related societal collapse, etc.
In your perspective, why would these drugs be made available to the general public given they'd be arguably the most valuable thing every produced in human history? Presumably one or a few companies would own the IP, so they would of course charge massive sums for them because that's what corporations are supposed to do. So how does that not happen?
Astronomy usually has that kind of "Lovecraftian" sense of cosmic insignificance when you put things to sacale. Also, being alone at 3am in the middle of nowhere, cold and kind of sleepy, looking at a gas cloud lightyears away, adds to it. But it is also fascinating.
honestly the times I was on a proper telescope, I was shitting myself making sure I made the most of the time going down my list of targets and not getting something wrong and pointing at the wrong star or getting the wrong setting. that and the daemon that had to be restarted every half an hour or so because it crashed. I did not have the energy or time for philosophy. I guess that's the difference between the phd student and the professor haha!
Quite the opposite for me. I’m fascinated and inspired by the fact that this rock escaped the gravity well of one star and is now visiting another.
Now think about how "lucky" this one is it got to float through a solar system.
80 years (if lucky) is an unfathomably cruel prank and a prison.
I'm quite hopeful that anyone under 40 (arbitrary, mostly because I'm in my mid-30s) will get to LEV (longevity escape velocity) - there's a ton of anti-ageing and disease-curing research going on, especially now with the likes of DeepMind and others accelerating said research.
That's assuming you manage to avoid death from microplastics, climate change or AI-related societal collapse, etc.
In your perspective, why would these drugs be made available to the general public given they'd be arguably the most valuable thing every produced in human history? Presumably one or a few companies would own the IP, so they would of course charge massive sums for them because that's what corporations are supposed to do. So how does that not happen?
Wait until you hear what Earth has been up to in that same time.