Re:Ask HN: What are some worthy high-level goals for humankind?
by f0e4c2f7 on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:50PM
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Get humans to a different star system. Alpha Centauri is the closest.
This goal would be so ambitious and multigenerational that it would be like our version of building the pyramids. It could only be accomplished with the kind of long term thinking normally reserved for world religions and science fiction.
It's hard to imagine what secrets of nature we might uncover in the process of attempting it.
This goal would be so ambitious and multigenerational that it would be like our version of building the pyramids. It could only be accomplished with the kind of long term thinking normally reserved for world religions and science fiction.
It's hard to imagine what secrets of nature we might uncover in the process of attempting it.