If it were a one way ride I wouldn't want to go. We tend to "romanticize" the past when in fact for most of human history the vast majority of humans lived short, miserable, extremely difficult lives.
We may complain about a lot of shit but the nature of our "modern problems" pale in comparison to those of our ancestors. Go spend some time in some 3rd world shit hole like Somalia and you'll likely get a good taste of what most of humanity historically lived with
Assuming our theoretical time machine is capable of a return trip I'd much rather turn the dial forward 1000 years or so. If the changes brought to the human experience by technologies of the last 50, even 20 years are any indication that would be incredible to see. I know I know...I can hear it already... "But Papaya humans probably wont even be around by then,..will have destroyed the world...we're fucked...yada yada"...I know. But I don't agree
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Henry Stanley Haskins
Call me a naive optimist but I think in the long run I tend to believe the best minds, men of will and of strong character will win out when the shit really hits the fan.
If past is prologue then:
“We were hunters and foragers, the frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the earth and the ocean and the sky.
The open road still softly calls our little terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds.
We who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds; are we to venture out into space?
By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us. Necessity will have changed us. We’re an adaptable species.
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses. More confident, far seeing, capable, and prudent.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, We Humans are Capable of Greatness.
What new wonders undreamt of in our time will we have wrought in another generation and another?
How far will our nomadic species have wandered by the end of the next century and the next millennium?
Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds through the solar system and beyond, will be unified.
By their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe, come from Earth.
They will gaze up and strain to find the Blue Dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was. How perilous our infancy. How humble our beginnings. How many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.” – Carl Sagan
I'd love to turn than fucking time machine dial forward..
We may complain about a lot of shit but the nature of our "modern problems" pale in comparison to those of our ancestors. Go spend some time in some 3rd world shit hole like Somalia and you'll likely get a good taste of what most of humanity historically lived with
Assuming our theoretical time machine is capable of a return trip I'd much rather turn the dial forward 1000 years or so. If the changes brought to the human experience by technologies of the last 50, even 20 years are any indication that would be incredible to see. I know I know...I can hear it already... "But Papaya humans probably wont even be around by then,..will have destroyed the world...we're fucked...yada yada"...I know. But I don't agree
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Henry Stanley Haskins
Call me a naive optimist but I think in the long run I tend to believe the best minds, men of will and of strong character will win out when the shit really hits the fan.
If past is prologue then:
“We were hunters and foragers, the frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the earth and the ocean and the sky.
The open road still softly calls our little terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds.
We who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds; are we to venture out into space?
By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us. Necessity will have changed us. We’re an adaptable species.
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses. More confident, far seeing, capable, and prudent.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, We Humans are Capable of Greatness.
What new wonders undreamt of in our time will we have wrought in another generation and another?
How far will our nomadic species have wandered by the end of the next century and the next millennium?
Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds through the solar system and beyond, will be unified.
By their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe, come from Earth.
They will gaze up and strain to find the Blue Dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was. How perilous our infancy. How humble our beginnings. How many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.” – Carl Sagan
I'd love to turn than fucking time machine dial forward..
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- Does She Have The "Happy Gene" ?
-Inversion Therapy
-Let's lead by example
"Leap, and the net will appear". John Burroughs
"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."
Joseph Campbell