It's sad how civilzation has nowhere farther to advance

Don't worry, buddy. We still have not perfected robotic sexual companionship.

Also....

Further.

Hey buddy... Greece is nice this time.of year

Hear they work like 20 hours a week

One by one we are eliminating the "relevant" sciences as they shift towards entertainment, but we're not done yet.

NO LONGER RELEVANT:

Astronomy - relevant when we were figuring out cycles of seasons and navigation. Now it's just a way to show that we're better than Russians and material for entertainers like Neil de Grasse Tyson.

Phisyics - was 99% irrelevant by the time of Newton, and Einstein only figured out the last useful 1% that we needed to get GPS to work. Things like string theory are unfalsifiable and therefore fruitless.

Chemistry - 99% done, only thing left is to get batteries for electric cars more efficient. Every stable element has indeed been discovered. I believe the research is already there in academia, just have to implement it, so I'll call this "no longer relevant."

STILL RELEVANT (but not for much longer):

Biology - we still need to build vertical farms and genetically engineer agriculture to be an order of magnitude more efficient to solve the overpopulation problem. Oceanographers still may need to figure out what "the Blob" is.

Medicine - still have some diseases to eradicate.

Information technoloy - Moore's Law no longer applies and nanotechnology is a pipe dream, but we have to build self-driving automobiles to eliminate car accidents.

Geology - we already know how tectonic plates work, but not how they respond to fracking. Once we don't need fracking anymore, this will be irrelevant.

EMERGING:

Nutrition - lots to figure out here, as all degenerative diseases are related to nutrition, yet we still don't know extremely basic things like what happens to iron absorption when you eat calcium.

NEVER WAS RELEVANT:

Climate science - see above. We need to make agriculture AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more efficient anyway. Therefore it doesn't really matter if the climate shifts a couple degrees warmer over the next 100 years.

Lolz at physics and chemistry 99% done.

Is this a joke? Physics and chemistry is irrelevant?

Our modern understanding of science is only a couple hundred years old. We went from flight to Saturn V in less than 100 years. Imagine what we could do after 1 million years.

So long as we don't kill all of ourselves before then.

BTW Jamin you have redbull and vodka now.... that is a good advancement right?

fjdjdjdjdjdjd wrote:

Hey buddy... Greece is nice this time.of year

Hear they work like 20 hours a week

What decade or century are you living in?

They have like, what, 40% unemployment?

bdjdjdjdjdjdnd wrote:

Lolz at physics and chemistry 99% done.

What new physics breakthroughs have made any PRACTICAL impact since relativity/GPS?

Last I checked physicists were celebrating that they found the "God Particle" and trying to find out what dark matter is. Like I said, it's all material for Neil Tyson's next season.

Don't be fooled by every BuzzWorthy article that tells you that the latest chemical will fuel a revolution. People gotta get paid.

BTW Jamin you have redbull and vodka now.... that is a good advancement right?

How'd you know that's what I'm having right now?

booboomagoo wrote:

Is this a joke? Physics and chemistry is irrelevant?

Our modern understanding of science is only a couple hundred years old. We went from flight to Saturn V in less than 100 years. Imagine what we could do after 1 million years.

Imagine how much we HAVEN'T done since Saturn V.

It's a HUGE mistake to extrapolate the last 100 years of advancement to the next million years in the future. Look, sometimes a breakthrough happens and then no progress is made for millennia. Tell me about all the great inventions between 2500BC and 500BC. This stagnation has happened before, it'll happen again.

This is hilarious. You really believe this stuff? You REALLY believe nutrition holds more promise than physics and chemistry? 99% done? That's cool bra.

Jamin you gotta cut down on those energy drinks remember?

Peter Th. wrote:

Imagine how much we HAVEN'T done since Saturn V.

It's a HUGE mistake to extrapolate the last 100 years of advancement to the next million years in the future. Look, sometimes a breakthrough happens and then no progress is made for millennia. Tell me about all the great inventions between 2500BC and 500BC. This stagnation has happened before, it'll happen again.

Since Saturn V? Ahem:

-Quantum teleportation (1992)

-The creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate (1995)

-The accelerating expansion of the universe (1997)

-Experimental proof that neutrinos have mass (1998)

-The sighting of the Higgs boson at Cern (2012)

-Hadron therapy - targeting tumors with miniature, table-top particle accelerators.

-Neutrino Mass: surprisingly, neutrinos have a nonzero mass, which provides a window into particle physics beyond the standard model.

-Topological Insulators (TIs): we’ve known for a long time that solids, liquids, gases and plasmas aren’t the only phases of matter; but only recently, we’ve unexpectedly discovered a huge new class of phases.

-Quantum computing (insanely powerful in the future) using Quantum Error Correction (QEC) and Shor’s Algorithm

-Graphene - for electronics and super-strong materials & nanotechnology

-Nanoscopic "superlenses" using evanescent light.

-Power on the go - kinetic energy harvesting using triboelectrics.

-The freakin internet and worldwide communications

-Semiconductors

-Scanning probe microscopes

-Giant magnetoresistive effect

-MRI

-Semiconductor lasers and light-emitting diodes

-Carbon fiber & reinforced plastics

-Materials for Li ion batteries

-Carbon nanotubes

-Digital technology

-Robotics

-Genetic Sequencing

-MEMS

... yeah bro. Real stagnant.

Peter Th. wrote:

NO LONGER RELEVANT:

Phisyics - was 99% irrelevant by the time of Newton, and Einstein only figured out the last useful 1% that we needed to get GPS to work. Things like string theory are unfalsifiable and therefore fruitless.

Chemistry - 99% done, only thing left is to get batteries for electric cars more efficient. Every stable element has indeed been discovered. I believe the research is already there in academia, just have to implement it, so I'll call this "no longer relevant."

Information technoloy - Moore's Law no longer applies and nanotechnology is a pipe dream . . .

No.

Civilized people are weak, slow and stupid. They are like farm animals compared to their wild cousins. All these "advances" merely add to the effete luxury that is poisoning the human condition.

The idea that civilization made people smarter is false. Almost all of that "we're so smart" stuff is just culture and specialization. Even inventors and such are just trained by years of rote like a performing bear at a circus. They do amazing things, but they can't do ordinary human things, lost in a maze of nerdery from which there is no escape.

The true human is the spear-wielding barbarian. Never live in groups of more than 30. Never plant crops or keep domestic food animals. Allow nature and evolution to keep you and your descendants strong. One day, as history has proven again and again, civilization will overripen and consume itself, but the barbarians endure forever.

You mad, bro?

jamin wrote:

All the elements on the periodic table have been discovered. All the corners of the earth have been travelled to. All the technology that can be created has been created. All the running WRs have been set. Now we all just sit around while the planet becomes more crowded and our living standards drop as a result. It would be nice to be alive back during the times when the cost of living, the number of hours worked per week, etc., were actually going DOWN with each generation.

Periodic table, running wrs, the plight of the working/middle class man = totes relatable. What's all that other garbage though... World travels? And technology? You dang fool. Wrong in so many ways.

And socioeconomic plight is a rather abrupt jump from your thread topic.

Civilization has a lot or improving to do. Technologically, morally, socially. Travel is a fluid broad notion spanning parameters and dimensions. The world didn't become boring after Magellan and Lewis and Clark did their thang. Certain tourist destinations have become cliche but being out in the vast lands of the world has loads of non vicarious possibility. And of course the oceans are the final frontier.... Oh and what about underground or the vast aerial space?

Sheesh boi.

Questioner ear wrote:

You mad, bro?

swish

jamin wrote:

BTW Jamin you have redbull and vodka now.... that is a good advancement right?

How'd you know that's what I'm having right now?

^^With Pamprin

They still haven't figured out a way for guys like you to get girls.

I'm still waiting for those flying cars that were supposed to be ubiquitous by now.