But EVE IS real.

We will be carebears because our spaceships will be worse than rookie ships!

LIES !!

Today i stumbled upon a thread where... once again... people complain about highsec carebearing, no risk vs reward, the evil nature of people in eve, etc. etc.

Now, deep space exploration/traveling, hell, even colonization become more and more of a reality as we progress in real life.

I would like this thread to be about what the eve community expects if we... lets say, in 50 years have started colonizing space.

Will we be littering space with our trash? Depleting natural resources as we currently do on our planet? Will we be spending billions on building war machines to blow each other up for personal profit and gain? Or perhaps we have clasped hands together to fight mutual alien foes instead that threaten human race on a cosmic level?

If we take EVE as reference... then perhaps we need to worry? Or will we be fine and good little carebears?

Looking forward to the eve community's view.

o7

We probably won't have much say, it will be large corporations that decide things if we do start colonizing.

God damn Goons! Amirite?!?

Now, deep space exploration/traveling, hell, even colonization become more and more of a reality as we progress in real life.

I would like this thread to be about what the eve community expects if we... lets say, in 50 years have started colonizing space.

Will we be littering space with our trash? Depleting natural resources as we currently do on our planet?

Will we be spending billions on building war machines to blow each other up for personal profit and gain?

Or perhaps we have clasped hands together to fight mutual alien foes instead that threaten human race on a cosmic level?

If we take EVE as reference... then perhaps we need to worry? Or will we be fine and good little carebears?

if we... lets say, in 50 years have started colonizing space.

Assuming we ever made it off our homeworld in any kind of lasting way, and assuming we somehow managed to develop the technology to travel the vast distances of space without it taking the better part of a human lifetime or even generations, and assuming we could do this in such a way as to maintain some sort of interplanetary communication and logistics structure and not just cast seeds of humanity to the solar winds to fend for themselves... I would worry about humanity coming into contact with the preverbial Jovians, acting like we all too often do towards each other, and as a result getting not only themselves stomped on like ants but provoking said Jove like race to come back here and wipe a potential menace from the face of this planet with about as much effort as it takes to press a button.

I hate to be pessimistic about it because ever since I was old enough to look up at the sky and understand the concept of space I have dreamt of leaving this world and drifting through space in the spirit of exploration and exocultural contact, but right now humanity in my opinion just doesn't have the level of respect for itself or our homeworld to justify our exodus from it without risking further harm to ourselves or other worlds.

So maybe as we play these kinda games we might realize from a certain perspective they aren't just games, they're tests, and so far in my opinion I don't see humanity passing.

What if we are the most advanced civilization in the universe? I mean someone has to be first, why not us. Maybe we will be the Jovians to other species on different planets.

I've wondered about that too, thing is when I look at our place in the Milky Way, how we're stuck way out on the edge of a single spiral arm among many other arms circling a nice and dense galactic center that looks lit up like New York City, I can't help but feel like we're out in the preverbial boondocks and that in that bright middle area theirs an abundance of life that has existed and evolved for far longer than we, not to mention all the other spiraling arms, and countless other galaxies as well.

Considering how most of the human population doesn't care at all for space exploration, we're not going anywhere soon.
Space is expensive

I care

Me too, but sometimes it depresses me that I care because in caring I come to realize just how much of a prisoner I am on this planet.

its not cost effective and will never happen. the great times of spaceflights are over

we now can send cheap drones / robots, or just build some telescopes into space. but humans flying to space will get to zero soon.

Well, we already litter in space. Earths orbit is chock full of rocket bodies and other space junk. There were concerns over curiosities nuclear fuel cells - if there were an accident mars would be showered in radioactive material - but we went ahead and did it anyway... I get the feeling we'l care even less for other worlds than we do for our own. Humans suck tbh.