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526. Steven Novella, co-author of The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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We're Going to Double Our Capacity to Resist Space, or Triple It?

We're going to double our ability to withstand space, or triple it. We don't know what the limits are. Our genetically modified siborg descendants will be travelling in space in 500 years and you have to include that as part of your calculation. You can't just project that technology forward. It's important to think about all other technologies also advancing over the same period of time. So we won't be traveling in space in500 years, right? That's sort of a futurism fallacy.

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