Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Ok, this is the one you can say "my eyes glazed over" and move on.

In post # 2 I said; ....humanity has much more "evolution" to pass through before such a task will even be worth considering.

Short and simple, but I think that's what we have right now. Where we're at right now. We're not ready.

Further on in the discussion (post 4), I said; If we stop finding reasons to kill each other.

In response to your comment:

I'd imagine that, within the next 200 years, the lifespan of humans is going to increase astronomically, and then you will see this sort of thing being taken seriously.

That humans are still a basically violent, hedonistic, nasty, territorial being has everything to do with what I'm saying when I say;

If we stop finding reasons to kill each other.

In otherwords, claiming that it is "irrelevant" is silly as hell

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Sure, violence has played a part in motivating EVERYTHING we do. It's currently part of our nature. However, the project being brought up in the OP isn't the kind of project that can ever occur while the beings proposing it are fighting, killing and disagreeing with each other about MUCH more minor ideas and projects.

That's all.