if you dont want arrogant, belittling responses, dont give them in the first place.

i cannot fathom why you would expect a polite respectful reply in response to an arrogant insulting one. its absurd.

its like walking up to someone and saying "hey, fuck you" and then getting offended when they say "fuck you too"

seriously, are you gonna justify your actions? or apologise? or are you just gonna slink away while pretending that i was the disrespectful one?

LOL don't be such a noob, landswimmer!

'we could colonise the entire galaxy in only a few hundred thousand years'

Won't take longer than two thousand years to colonise a quarter of the galaxy. Humans will most surely spread extremely thin and colonise way too much, without any real need to do so, with the pace of growth growing exponentially, not largely due to the increasing population and amount of resources available, but mostly because of technology.

I can very easily envision entire sectors of space owned by some billionaires, with thousands of solar systems exploited solely by automated systems, with the habitable planets housing the billionaires' dinasties (which will reach to be bilions in numbers, as rejuvenation is already very close to coming to fruition).

Pretty likely humans will also become a 'secondary' source of labor, which corporation owners would use just because 'meh', why not have some more industrial power? So they'd be paid poorly, and humans will just always come second to automated systems.

And because humans are extremely capitalistic (greedy as fuck) humanity will just continue to expand using robots and/or maybe slave clones too to just expand infinitely, just because of the perceived 'wealth' such expansion would bring to the billionaires/corporations. Why not expand your territory when you can, and there is no real threat to doing so?

lol whats going on in this thread? whos arguing?


who cares.

You did care enough to comment.

landswimmer still has it

your post became insulting and disrespectful the second you tried to make fun of me for saying "cheap rockets".

ladies and gentlemen, THIS is why you dont just drop your opinion into a thread without reading it first.

literally nothing you have said has any relation to the EMdrive.

and if you were looking to have a discussion on any of the points you raised, you probably shouldnt have started your post with:



its just not a very good way to start a discussion.

I never took you for someone as sensible, landswimmer, that's for sure. Would've thought you're able to take a joke, or at least not be insulted by someone calling you a noob for absolutely no reason over the internet.

Regardless, as I already stated, the expansion will happen due to the growth and improvement rate of technology, which is and will still be growing exponentially for a long time to come. Who the hell cares about light years anymore when we're talking about humans in a couple thousand year old technological revolution.

And, indeed, it had nothing to do with the thread, but with your comment.

Now, please, how about we have a discussion, and we learn about when someone is meaning to be insulting and not, even over the internet. It can't be all too hard.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... ible-drive

ignoring 3 positive test results because "MUH NEWTON'S LAWS" is fucking arrogant and unscientific.

as a scientist, it pisses me off to see dogmatic fuckwits dismiss a potentially revolutionary technology just because it shouldnt be possible according to our incomplete theories of physics.

christian fundies dont stand in the way of progress anywhere near as badly as dogmatic assholes who think humanity's understanding of physics is perfect, because it fucking isnt. we still dont know how superconductivity works, but you dont see people disputing the existence of superconductivity. why? because theory doesnt fucking matter if the evidence is conclusive.

but it pisses me off even more that those same fuckwits are going to "forget" how obstructive they were once the technology is in use, and they're going to do the same fucking thing to the next poor bastard who invents something revolutionary and redefines our understanding of physics.

because that is what dogmatic fuckwits do, they stand in the way of progress, by being too fucking stupid to understand the most important thing about science - keeping an open mind and emperically testing hypotheses.

what isnt scientific, is being a closed minded asshole and dismissing something because experimental results contradict the prevailing theory

and thats not even mentioning the fucking scumbags who ridicule others for not being as closed minded as they are.

you're a scientist? lol

if that's the case, then I am Barack Obama, bringing you affordable healthcare and change to this great nation

just because you've wasted your life doesnt mean everyone else has too.

don't back talk your president like that, or il bring sanctions up on you

I would think that a scientist would be able to be polite and, likewise, be able to keep composure on the forums of an online video game, when someone questions your intelligence/RL occupation.

All in all, please learn to accept people with a diferent state of mind, and be willing to argue with any and all people, no matter how retarded said people must seem to you.

Poor Ron Paul has done that for years over years, reason why a 'small time' presidential candidate like him managed to garner as much respect.