Is there any hope for the human race?

[Slam62]

The things that seem to happen mostly because someone somewhere just decided it was a good idea seem to be getting more and more atrocious.

Global warming appears to be a real thing, but the chances of huge greedy nations doing anything about it is zero, the same goes for plastics that are dumped into the oceans.

When I was younger I hoped we would build a better world, as I have got older I have come to realise the world is full of evil parasites and all we can do is protect ourselves. Even then if we were to do it probably wouldn’t save us from the mad max world we are heading towards.

Or is there a more positive spin that can be put on it all?

 

[gingergundog]

FUBAR

 

[tom_e]

I've read enough GD posts to know the answer to the title is no.

 

[Spannerhead]

Maybe we should start ww3 and start over from scratch ?

Either that or maybe let ai takeover the human race and see if it can do any better

 

[GreatAuk]

Guys I want to open up a series of interesting highly stimulating conversations on harnessing new propulsion systems for interstellar travel among other things. I think we need to leave planet earth especially with all this global warming. Physicists please step up to this thread and brings your science to the equation we need to master gravity

 

[Rroff]

No human race if anything seems to be getting even more insular and entrenched in positions despite the internet should give people access to broader information to make a more informed opinion instead people often seem to use it to seek out the information which agrees with and reinforces their world view/what they want to believe, even when that means wadeing through tons of stuff which robustly deconstructs what they want to believe.

 

[JonRGV250]

Global warming appears to be a real thing

Yawn

Just get on with life, enjoy the company of your loved ones and make the most of whats available to you.
Or..
Be a massive cry baby and spend your life worrying about anything and everything and make your life as miserable as possible and be forever unhappy.
Decisions decisions..

 

[randal]

Maybe we should start ww3 and start over from scratch ?

Either that or maybe let ai takeover the human race and see if it can do any better

Problem is, humans wrote AI and it's base knowledge is human based.

So it'll just do the same dumb things, but faster.

 

[nightwish]

Yawn

Just get on with life, enjoy the company of your loved ones and make the most of whats available to you.
Or..
Be a massive cry baby and spend your life worrying about anything and everything and make your life as miserable as possible and be forever unhappy.
Decisions decisions..

...and this attitude is exactly why we're all screwed. Sigh.

To answer the question - no, we're all far too selfish and short-sighted (see above). No chance we last as long as the dinosaurs did.

 

[Slam62]

Yawn

Just get on with life, enjoy the company of your loved ones and make the most of whats available to you.
Or..
Be a massive cry baby and spend your life worrying about anything and everything and make your life as miserable as possible and be forever unhappy.
Decisions decisions..

Trust me I’m trying to, it’s just gone crazy, no I don’t watch the news, don’t join the threads, don’t watch the you tube stuff, but it encroaches into everything now.

 

[JonRGV250]

...and this attitude is exactly why we're all screwed. Sigh.

To answer the question - no, we're all far too selfish and short-sighted (see above). No chance we last as long as the dinosaurs did.

Dinosaurs is the best you can come up with?
Sigh.

 

[nightwish]

Dinosaurs is the best you can come up with?
Sigh.

That nonsensical reply is the best you can come up with? Sigh.

 

[Slam62]

...and this attitude is exactly why we're all screwed. Sigh.

To answer the question - no, we're all far too selfish and short-sighted (see above). No chance we last as long as the dinosaurs did.

Yeah the dinosaurs did really well, they were just unlucky in the end, or maybe after that length of time such an event is inevitable.

 

[nightwish]

Live your life, do your thing, but we are all screwed unless a decent proportion of the human race stop being such idiots. That's not going to happen any time soon.

 

[GGizmo]

I think human history goes through cycles of objectification, were they start 'othering' each other until eventually a fight breaks out.

When a war does happen with millions of people dead then they realise it's in both parties interest to talk.

 

[Johno please?]

No, we have what appears to be millions of people still thinking jews shouldn't exist.... except its not the 1940s.

Ukraine, Armenia, isn't it still going off in Sudan? Seems like theres more conflicts than ever.

 

[JonRGV250]

Trust me I’m trying to, it’s just gone crazy, no I don’t watch the news, don’t join the threads, don’t watch the you tube stuff, but it encroaches into everything now.

As much as I loath to say it’s positive mental attitude, it really is.
We’re on this planet for a blink of an eye, so just ignore the white noise of negativity and crack on with it, and blot out the nutters in GD

 

[nightwish]

Guys I want to open up a series of interesting highly stimulating conversations on harnessing new propulsion systems for interstellar travel among other things. I think we need to leave planet earth especially with all this global warming. Physicists please step up to this thread and brings your science to the equation we need to master gravity

Bad news on that I'm afraid.

Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell "up" provided hope for warp drive. Here's how it all fell apart.

bigthink.com

 

[JonRGV250]

That nonsensical reply is the best you can come up with? Sigh.

You, for some unknown reason brought up dinosaurs not me.
Also as a positive spin, try not getting dropped on your head as a baby.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It’s the hope that kills you.