"... like SpaceX, we are really beginning to struggle here ..." I realize I'm digressing here, but just to make a hypothetical supposition, let's say you discovered an anti-gravity technology using anti-matter. And, let's say that world hegemony is your goal. You would be wise to make your conventional military forces only marginally superior to your opponents and negotiate minor concessions. This is because pulling out the big guns would accelerate technological development and thusly eat away at your advanced military force multipliers.
Prudently done, slowing arms development could extend your superiority for centuries. Of course, heckling your own airline pilots deflects suspicion. After 800 years when our atmosphere is cooking us, perhaps this technology could help us build floating cities that keep us cool at 5000 feet and drift northward in the summertime. Depopulation along with other prerequisites having been accomplished.
Don't get me started on assisting cellular life to fill all planetary voids. By now, we could have genetically engineered chlorophyll microbes to float on the cool cloud tops of Venus, making the planet look green in the night sky here on Earth. I mean fuck, is that a cool legacy for an intelligent civilization to create, or what?
Is it normal to not believe in aliens and UFOs?
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"... like SpaceX, we are really beginning to struggle here ..." I realize I'm digressing here, but just to make a hypothetical supposition, let's say you discovered an anti-gravity technology using anti-matter. And, let's say that world hegemony is your goal. You would be wise to make your conventional military forces only marginally superior to your opponents and negotiate minor concessions. This is because pulling out the big guns would accelerate technological development and thusly eat away at your advanced military force multipliers.
Prudently done, slowing arms development could extend your superiority for centuries. Of course, heckling your own airline pilots deflects suspicion. After 800 years when our atmosphere is cooking us, perhaps this technology could help us build floating cities that keep us cool at 5000 feet and drift northward in the summertime. Depopulation along with other prerequisites having been accomplished.
Don't get me started on assisting cellular life to fill all planetary voids. By now, we could have genetically engineered chlorophyll microbes to float on the cool cloud tops of Venus, making the planet look green in the night sky here on Earth. I mean fuck, is that a cool legacy for an intelligent civilization to create, or what?