One day humans will look back on the period between 200 BC and

Wrong. Our destiny is in the stars, it will be achieved even if it takes centuries.

>>1236890
>implying we're not in a simulation

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>>1236890
>plays civ 5
>wins spaceshio victory
>faps off to rocket
> realizes he wastes 16 hour on game
>realizes man not going to space anytime soon
>goes to clean up fap mess
>mommy calls me to dinner
>pulls my shlchubby ass upstairs from moms basement
>Pic what you wish you were but never will be
>eats dinner sadly

>>1235037
I'm afraid of eceonomics making people put it off until someone comes and finds us. Im scared of being spaceniggers/spacejews ("intelligent" species that couldn't get off their own planet en masse).

The truly scary thought is that we're alone.

>>1236979
Thats okay as long as a planet of milk and honey is waiting.

>>1236979
imo it's scarier than we'll find out we're not worth noticing. There was this book that made a pretty unsettling analogy about how humans are like a mouse in a verdun trench, they are aware of vast convulsions around them and just sort of skirt around them without realizing there's a conscious agent at fault or the reasons behind them.

>>1237052
You know, I can see that being the case, but I'd like us to someday be worthy of note.

Well no. As long as capitalism survives the era when communist millenials rule the West, then we will *have* to leave Earth. Capitalism is a hungry beast, ever reaching further to stuff its face with resources.