Very red or very blue, depending on where you're observing from.

So do I but I always think if we can see the sound barrier busted what would light travel look like getting busted?

Selfishly, as a biologist, I would like to see:

• Reconciliation of rates of evolution that scales from microevolution to macroevolution
• Accurate/reasonable estimation of lineage death rates for macroevolutionary diversification analysis
• (extension of previous) Reasonably estimate fossilization probability for (more) accurate clade age estimates
• Moving beyond phylogenetic trees (phylogenetic networks are a step in the right direction I think)

As a citizen of Earth, I would like to see:

• Actual plastic recycling that dramatically reduces the need for virgin petro-chemicals
• A 3D printer beyond plastics (I think this kind of a thing, but I would like it to scale for consumers and industry)
• A less massive battery that can be used for commercial flight
• Better earthquake detection

As a person who enjoys knee-deep sci-fi, I would like to see:

• FTL travel
• Futurama style heads-in-a-jar
• A Dyson sphere or swarm
• A hyperloop

As a (frustrated) scientist I would like to see:

• Society move beyond "societal utility" of scientific studies/discovery and embrace "science for the sake of science"

I wanna see the light barrier broken. IE FTL travel. I assume it is being worked on, somewhere in multiple forms probably, but I want to see it actually happen in my life time.

I wanna see more on generalized random Fibonacci sequences. Like calculate the Viswanath constant and Embree-Trefethen constant to more digits, examine more of the interesting fractal behaviors you see with some parameters, etc. Not for any real reason, it's just super neat and not at all intuitive lol.

He was a Nazi. He joined the SS way before the war, and contrary to popular belief Nazis wouldnt execute people for failing to commit atrocities. Anyone who didn't want to assist in atrocities would just be looked over for promotions. He wanted to build rockets, and being a nazi and using slave labor let him do that.

Correct. Pointless

Sure, and I think it speaks to two things: these ideas seem to arise from human nature itself, and they travel! There's some other less-accepted ideas about how much of the NT Bible is influenced by Greek classics, but it's an idea that's not without evidence.

It’s the point of the thread.

I saw a similar video to the first commentor and am not familiar enough with norse mythology to judge the validity.

But it wasn't trying to argue that Christianity was actually related to norse mythology, just that based on the depictions of Loki and his behavior as a insecure God, if he were to defeat odin and thor and go start over somewhere he would act a lot like old testiment depiction of God. Which honestly could make a pretty good foundation for a fantasy story if someone wanted I guess

Physics:

• WTF is Dark Matter?
• Where antimatter?

Chemistry/materials:

• Better batteries
• Better solar cells

Biology/medicine:

• What causes aging, and how do we stop it?
• Cure cancer
• More HHV vaccines
• Extinct malaria

Can I present you PBS Spacetime. In particular this somewhat recent episode explaining time travel is "inevitable under sole assumptions". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaqLgezRNE Some older episode talk about time travel in some event horizon of rotating black hole.

But in standard normal well understood universe. Nop. Not possible at all.

Ooh that's a thought yeah, drone v drone

Just mention me in the forward and we’ll call it square.

Getting out of the atmosphere is the most costly part of space travel. So you want to get out of the atmosphere as soon as possible after launch. The fastest route out of the atmosphere is straight up. It really is that simple.

If you tried to go out it at an angle you would need so much more fuel, which would make the space craft bigger and heavier and more costly to get into space.

Going straight up with a rocket is the most cost efficient way of getting into space.

As a point of fact, the winner of the X Prize wasn’t actually SpaceX… it was Scaled Composites with their jet-launched rocket-powered space plane.

The problem is that nobody really needs to go to space… there isn’t much money in it… On the other hand, people will pay millions to get the ORBIT. Going to space is just a matter of getting high enough, but orbit is all about getting fast as hell. In most cases, as far as we have learned, that means getting out of the atmosphere by the shortest means possible. The savings from launching higher from a jet don’t tend to offset the dramatically reduced payload and increased complexity.

Science has not provided a definitive answer that im not god.

I think drone on drone piracy could happen with asteroid mining missions without the need for manned missions. And it wouldn't need to be that cheap, nations will finance privateers. Imo all you need for piracy is a good moving from a to b and the inability for even overwhelming force to keep the good secure. Space is very hard to secure.

The God of Christianity is most likely a Canaanite god of the forge who was among other gods, including El and Ashura.

Gods of the forge were often also war gods (swords and armor come from forges), and we see evidence of the ancient Israelites making war with their neighbors on a frequent basis. It follows that Yahweh would therefore rise in cultural importance, and it would eventually assume the roles of its peers in the pantheon.

The early Biblical stories were likely adapted from existing Mesopotamian stories. The parallels between Norse mythology are interesting but not what the current historical consensus accepts.

True, but acknowledging the truth of the matter makes making references more challenging.

You need to define what you mean by "god" first. Which god? What are its qualities? What are its falsification criteria?

You can't just say, "What does science have to say," because it's not a singular question about a singular being.

We can’t know, so I don’t bother asking

Yes but that generally just shifts the questions one layer lower. Where would God come from then? I know the typical answer is God has always existed but if God doesn’t need a reason to exist then really the universe doesn’t either.

In the 70s it was D&D that was bringing about the end of civilization. It's always projection. Those kind of things are actually good outlets for stress, not causing mental illness.

I’m an atheist, but my argument for a god of some sort is that we probably don’t exist out of nothingness