[TheNewsIsHere]

It made me really happy to hear that. Thank you.

I’ve been told plenty of times that such a future is implausible. And I grant that our future may look a lot more like The Orville than Star Trek. But from an engineering, public health, and social perspective it seems that both of those visions have more similarities than differences. I accept that the individual work most of us do don’t directly build that future alone, but someone up-thread was quoting “E Pluribus Unum” and that’s how we get there.

(Auto-correct wished that to be “E Pluribus Ubuntu,” but I’ve always suspected LCARS is a lot more like BSD, Arch or Gentoo.)

[rbanffy]

And so what that it's implausible and quite possible unattainable as well? We may never get there, but getting there was never the point - the point is to be better than we were yesterday, and the day before, and so on.

Our present is equally implausible.

[HTTP418]

I always assumed we would hit some big filter and die off. If not a filter maybe something in the dark forest would get us

[FredPret]

Even if the chance of that was 99.9999%, the only morally defensible attitude would still be to devote all our energy to survive, expand, improve, and make human civilization more robust. As fast as possible.