JarJarBinksKisser
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not whatever it is we are doing here now
where did the future go?
Jan 18, 2026 2:35 AM
JarJarBinksKisser
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355
13
not whatever it is we are doing here now
where did the future go?
chaoskitten1331
The future is on our screens… we were never going to live it for real, it was always a fantasy
jimhotep
Me too.
Welliguessillgogetpants
Reminds me of a quote, shows a picture of earth and it says: “We could probably be out exploring the galaxy if we’d stop being dicks to each other for 5 minutes”
paeches
boomers were given it too easy, and it got to thwir head. the uproar about participation trophies was projection. they really dropped the ball when they became the majority in charge
Durahl
Still kinda salty this show ended like it did... Unfinished 😑💢
freshthrowaway1138
If we can't goto space, how about building a massive floating city that rides the air currents at 45degSouth?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Project_for_Floating_Cloud_Structures_%28Cloud_Nine%29.jpg
shardix
If you're into megastructures I'm confident the BLAME! timeline will be kicking in any day now. (Un?)fortunately that also comes with everyone getting permabanned from the internet.
theskepticinme
The future is always ahead of us
Neurisko
We don't have the materials processing, propulsion, or recycling technology to go to space in any numbers yet. I would like to see more research in those areas, though.
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
The secret is nukes, lots of nujes
norrinraddsboard
I am with you. I miss that future too. I am currently playing Stellar Blade, and the reason I am doing so is because I heard it has a space elevator...
WillTheFifth
Where did the future go? We sold it to billionaires for pennies on the dollar.
HellFireBeardMan
It is a shame but humans my go extinct before ever building mega-structures and or colonies in space if our future existence is left in the hands of the greedy and self serving.
trustmeneon
Something tells me this kind of future wouldn’t treat the manpower kindly but rather like Industrial Revolution era miners like.
stevelite
Where did the future go 🎶🎵🎶
FelonyRaptor
The lyrics from the 2004 Mudhoney song Where is the Future seem kinda real now, this is just a part of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unIU27zru2U
OperatorWay
VodkaReindeer
We realized there's a lot of space here to work on mega-structures. KSA desert for example.
onushka
found it on yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbvshIy1US8
Helixninja333
Well in the meantime: Dyson Sphere Program is fun.
InTangier
Try Space Engineers if you like that rabbit hole
onushka
Do you have a evidence space exist, at all?!? Stars are the tears of god because we have here so much gay sex.
SirButcher
Well then, get onto that gay sex too, we need a couple new stars!
onushka
Why do you think they call me MR Orion ?
(I have to use more the "/s" :D )
SirButcher
Less talking, more gay sex, come on, we are on the schedule here, daddy needs a bunch of new constellations!
tachyx
It makes me think that Elon Musk is going to live on an asteroid shaped like a skull instead of dying of an overdose after Tesla stock crashes.
JamesInTasmania
Nearest he'll get to an Asteroid mine is Ketamine...
Toqom
Elon already overdosed his brain, he's mush now
Sigge1981
The latter here is a very appealing thought. It made me smile to think about.
Nanoline
At this point Musk looks more likely to take his best shot at becoming Black Ghost.
medimr
Musk was born at least a hundred years too early for his delusional fantasies of living on another planet.
WarlockSniper
Oh no, we can 100% send Elon to mars to live there for the rest of his life.
Which would be about the time it takes for the oxygen in his pod to run out. Or his food/water sources.
Can this be livestreamed?
3Davideo
Actually I disagree, at least in part. A nascent Mars colony should be possible with near future tech and sufficient resources and initiative. It wouldn't have room for useless touristy baggage like him, and terraforming is right out, but a basic Mars initiative should be possible.
Tengenstein
Come on now. We can send him over there, then try the nuclear terraforming idea. Theoretically it won't work, but we should at least test it empirically.
Maybe even repeatedly, for scientific rigour.
medimr
Idk, it would take decades to set up the infrastructure to keep a persistent population there. It's less about the technology and more about the logistics.
3Davideo
Oh yeah I was thinking more of a "The Martian" level base for like 8-10 people. Probably shouldn't have called it a "colony".
walpurrga
is that from an anime? it looks so cool
dreikommavierzehn
right? i love that old style
Fouthtimeburntout
80s/90s anime was a unicorn era we'll never see again -- enough money to fund anything, no matter how stupid; and the techniques were hand drawn right when digital art was getting started
Flyingwigs
It's cool but unfortunately never finished 😭
MKESewerRat
HanahakiBlank is a YouTuber who re-scores old anime. The visuals are original, most of the sound is vastly improved.
Fouthtimeburntout
Improved? It's generic AI/short form content music
MKESewerRat
That's "Grounded" by Jameson Nathan Jones. I fucking love it. Are you part of the new generation that can't say "I don't like" so they say "It's wrong to like this"?
MKESewerRat
On the off-chance I've misinterpreted and you meant the background effects: yes, mixing audio is a skill and the original mixing for a lot of old anime was kind of dog-shit (DBZ sound effects are GOAT though)
wernerru
I had to go search it because now I need to go watch it ahah - Mighty Space Miners
SteersAndQueers
Starring Bruce Willis.
walpurrga
thank you! <3
wernerru
just a shame there's only 2 episodes of the 6 before it got canceled :/
FTUG
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aXF0aTc0azZ2MDdlYnBnZXhiMDI1amNxZnoyeHIwbjVidjB6NjJ3YiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/mbhseRYedlG5W/200w.webp
LincLoud
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NightOwlRally
I thought it was an anime adaptation of Battle Garegga there for a second haha
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
The future went into the pockets of CEOs and shareholders. Money that could be building a future is sitting in bank accounts of parasites.
BenderRodriguz1010
This.
AtmaDarkwolf
Another of the huge pile of how 'greed destroys progress!'
Livetinydienever
Giving us only the future they want to see
PeaComprehensive7101
I'm waiting for ASI to take over or kill us all.. Either way its a win
RunningDroid
The billionaires don't wanna hear this but LLMs aren't likely to develop AGI*, if AGI is even possible‡
*: https://thegradient.pub/agi-is-not-mult">">https://thegradient.pub/agi-is-not-multimodal/
‡: https://philarchive.org/archive/SCHAIM-14
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mikenco
Phones and social media platforms are just a means to sales and control.
ILDL
"If you diswike society then why do you pawtipwate in it. Hmm. I'm vewy smawt."
ThisIsYourLifeNow
Made by the companies that invest the absolute minimum in R&D they can and iterate the same shit over and over again with slightly better specs for decades now. If tech would be the focus and not squeezing the last drop of profit out of people, we would be 2 decades ahead with tech. Just look at Intel when AMD was not on the radar anymore. Or look at how fast the big car companies had electric cars in their portfolio after they saw how well the shitty Tesla cars did. They had them ready.
WarlockSniper
WW2 is back and wants to murder even more innocents, courtesy of Putin and Trump.
A big information network doesn't mean we live in a good time.
KellionBane
Just hit their assets first and you'll see how fast world peace comes shows up.
ArchaeoEejit
I think we'll just call it ww3 though.
WarlockSniper
We could, but it REALLY is just "WW2, electric boogaloo". The bad guys are the same, to the last word in the goddamned playbook.
I am so tired of this.
ArchaeoEejit
America was an ally last time. You are the baddies now.