Out of Pod Experience

Fish evolved to be land animals over an immense amount of time. Physical evolution takes huge time. Accidents and thousands of failures adding up to a success or two and a tiny progression in a direction good or bad.
For every creature that evolved to higher complexity, five more simplified themselves and became parasites on that more complex lifeform.
Cultural and technological evolution is much faster, after the wheel is invented, you can teach the principle of it in a moment. We now stand at a point in history where our morality is a few flipper-flops from that of bacteria, but our technology has allowed the sharpness of our hunger-to-know inside atoms and out to the quasars.
Fish didn't look at the land's surface and scheme: "We're gonna need a big damn tank up there, with a filter...."

Some say we need to preserve the environment, out of a deep respect for it and an understanding of our custodial place within it.
I say, Humanity is being born to the stars, we will change to become sky-travellers. We need to preserve the Earth's environment as much as a newborn needs to preserve the placenta that has nourished. You see many 35 year olds walking around with a placenta attached to their mother's? Not too often i bet.
Since there is a wall of maximum simplicity, it's in the nature of things to integrate and become more complex and refined. The idea of exporting our savage and regressive horror to the stars is untenable, much the same as the fishy plan to build tanks along the banks of the Nile.

What will one day look back at us as we look at coelenterate worms? Something that had to change to take to the skies.

you realise my post is about Imagination?

For a start Eve doesn't even utilise real physics, so unless that happens your argument is pretty much dead. Eve is more like a fantasy RPG about world domination. For a proper sci fi fan like myself Eve isn't realistic enough at all, and no way near enough to be thought of as any kind of simulator. Eve is a world domination simulator, but not a sci fi simulator.

your studies seem to hold you back from real imagination

Nope. As a science fiction fan we appreciate imagination to be based upon reality. That is the whole point of science fiction. Some of the greatest works of science fiction had massive leaps of the imagination from the authors, but all when grounded in reality. That is why I don't watch any of this new superhero and vampire crap they keep releasing these days, it is a complete fantasy world, unlike science fiction which is actually possible. Some of the greatest science fiction writers actually predicted in their writings things which came to pass as technology caught up. That is the beauty of science fiction, what is in your imagination can actually become a reality.

CCP only introduced the fluid model to make the game more intuitive to people who didn't understand how space works. But did you know the original intention was to have full newtonian physics? It is a shame that never happened.

It does bring a tear to my eye that someday mankind will reach out to the stars and finally grasp them, beginning the final exploration of the human race, where we collectively lift our race to the stars, so that we may be complete assholes to eachother.

*sniffle*

do you understand my post or just see the words? just wondering...

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