What are your personal feelings about the future? Not regarding the near future like the next election or even the next year but maybe the next decade.
Pic is the ISS transiting the Sun. Got me thinking about the triviality of most of what is discussed every day.
>>74927404
US will collapse. Currencies will fail and have to be remade.
>>74927404
For me, I've been thinking a lot about the negative things I see every day and mostly have realized that it's very easy to see the world through a very narrow lens. Personally I have come to believe that a lot of what people focus on is actually quite inconsequential. Technology currently in development, while silent right now, will soon transform the whole world (no matter what) and everything we talk about now will be forgotten.
Just look at the rapid pace of automation of industry and the even more rapid pace of the entire world shifting sources of energy consumption. And look at what NASA has planned next decade.
We could find ourselves 10 years from now witnessing astronauts tow an asteroid into orbit of earth's moon.
World war 3 will happen by 2020
It's so obvious, the world is too stupid to see the truth
>>74927509
>>74927555
I disagree. I think it's really easy to see the end times near if you look for it around every corner.
The U.S. and Russia are cooperating on space station planning again but they barely announced it.
Saudi Arabia is diversifying their economy and even privatizing the state oil company.
South America is expelling socialists from government.
Private investors are backing new solar and wind projects at a 2:1 rate of oil and gas.
Microsoft just started issuing grants for people who want to expand global internet access.
People don't talk about these stories that much but they matter a lot more than the usual things that are published in my opinion.
You didn't mention China
they've been cyberattacking western markets for years now
>>74928485
I mentioned a few off the top of my head. Here's the real story with China.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/chinas-twilight-years/480768/
Their aging population is the real story but I couldn't tell you how to spin that into a broader narrative.
Anyway my advice is for people to start reading business news. It actually reports boring stories that matter instead of stories made for shock value and entertainment.
thinking about how cheap power could solve some pretty serious world wide problems and reduce the effects of overpopulation
>>74928707
There are a lot of eyebrow-raising numbers in the story such as China's population soon going under 1 billion and having more retirees than the current population of Brazil.
Read:
>“It really doesn’t matter what happens now with the fertility rate,” a demographer at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told me. “The old people of tomorrow are already here.” She predicted that in another decade or two, the social and fiscal pressures created by aging in China will force what many Chinese find inconceivable for the world’s most populous nation: a mounting need to attract immigrants. “When China is old, though, all the countries we could import workers from will also be old,” she said. “Where are we to get them from? Africa would be the only place, and I can’t imagine that.”
>>74927404
Well the ISS won't be around in a decade, for one.
cool pic OP
mercury just transited recently as well
>>74927404
I am excited to see medical technology progress. Ideally, I will be able to have my brain transplanted into a female clone of myself within the ~50-100 years I have left.
>>74929345
Russians are planning another one. Think the whole gang won't jump on board once this gets rolling?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Piloted_Assembly_and_Experiment_Complex
Btw NASA is going wild with these new mission plans once the SLS is built. Be patient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_SLS_and_Orion_Missions
>we may have so much winning, you will get bored of winning!!
>>74929712
>tfw NASA spends more money telling arabic countries they are good at match then when they used to fly manned space missions
>>74929554
>medical technology
Great point. I hadn't even considered this.
Literally just googled and found in the first result that a Geordi LaForge headset for the blind is currently in development.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/228048-medical-technology-coming-to-the-rescue-for-the-vision-impaired
>>74930006
Congress voted to give NASA $800M more than Obama asked for and a $1.27B increase from last year's budget.
We are going to see manned Commercial Crew Program launches next year as a result.
I was at space camp the year the Moroccans came to visit and the ones I talked to were all pretty interesting. I asked them why Morocco didn't have a space program they didn't have a good answer. You never know where the next great mind will be born, anon.
>disclaimer: I do not support illiterates swarming our borders and taking out welfare. But supporting stem in developing countries is very cheap and can yield some seriously good outcomes.
>>74927404
I used to believe humanity had a future, that it's best and brightest had the curiosity, ambition, and strength to forge a new era of discovery and knowledge, but I see the truth now.
A simple-minded, mercantile elite with mundane goals, entrenched in their insipid concept of life seek to preserve a stagnated state of the world and remove all possibility and potential that comes from the best of humankind. They have taken power over everything, with thought only of the shallowest terms, exercising an endless game of "take" of meaningless, figurative wealth of which can never fully be grasped in their hands, more substance than they'll ever need and create conditions that so little remaining substance can be relayed to the rest, thus ending the path of human progress, its future with it, and rendering all of history obsolete.
>>74928403
What about Europe?
We're in the shitter.
>>74927404
You got your flag on the moon!? Bitch, we got a flag on the sun!
>>74930454
>They have taken power over everything
Read Elon Musk's life story. Like where he came from and his end goal for his investments. Also read his attitude toward this country and its history.
Your comment also reads like someone from the early days of the French Revolution.
You may also want to read the story of Antoine Lavoisier.
Technology literally cannot be stopped no matter how many scientists and entrepreneurs are executed or how little the general public cares.
Most research labs private or (some) public don't observe federal holidays. People go to work every day simply to discover new things and conduct research that is in reality completely meaningless to today's world.
But their discoveries will pay off in the next generation. That's how its always worked.
>>74930438
>We are going to see manned Commercial Crew Program launches next year as a result.
oh snap, whaaat,directly from nasa or subsidy to a private enterprise? i had not heard of this
>You never know where the next great mind will be born, anon.
>But supporting stem in developing countries is very cheap and can yield some seriously good outcomes.
>But supporting stem in developing countries is very cheap and can yield some seriously good outcomes.
why are we recruiting non americans when we could be recruiting americans tho?
>>74930511
ESA went to an asteroid no? Never been done before.
Europe is also currently trying to launch its own GPS satellites. (Whole world currently borrows from the US).
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/esa-set-launch-latest-galileo-satellites
They're launching today, anon. Give it a watch if you're feeling low.
>>74930729
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development
I am not sure exactly what all of this is to be honest but I do know that Bolden was on Capitol Hill laying into the Congressmen about why its important and that we will launch in 2017 if given enough funding. I guess it worked.
As for the "recruiting" let's just call it a difference of opinion. I think minor funding for opportunities for kids is great no matter the country. NASA already has all kinds of domestic competitions and such. What I saw was a small State Department thing for a few exceptional students who I could tell really appreciated all they saw.
I mean we were in Alabama and they thought it was the coolest thing ever. Maybe they will think twice about the next Death to America speech they hear or maybe someday their grandchildren will be the first Maghrebis in space.
>>74930803
what about africa?
>>74931148
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development
neat
>>74930707
>Technology literally cannot be stopped
True, but it will be greatly stymied. The global movement of heavily politicized education, damages great swaths of potential and adds to conditions of intellectual austerity. At best we'll only have banker led research institutions fed along for the most primal pursuits. The pay offs will go exclusively to them just as many cures exist now and with our technology and infrastructure could easily provide it at need, yet they are held for most, behind unclimbable pay walls. The elites write the rules of ownership to suit themselves and eliminate the path outside of sickness and poverty for every one else.
>>74931416
ur fucked lol
>>74927404
War against islam is inevitable, at some point even the most cucked of cucks will have to face reality, well not me because Brazil never is invoved in anything but all my support to the americans
>>74930076
That's pretty cool.
Ignoring the tranny bullshit I spouted earlier, it is exciting to see how things progress. Some day, people who are born with crippling conditions and illnesses might get some relief.
>genetic engineering of furryesque subhumans and other abominations as a global slave class is created.
> Great pushes for transhumanism and bodymodding.
> Man will be stripped of its image of divinity and the imitator will truly rule this world.
You will either choose to live on your knees as a slave or die a free man.
