Star View-Greydon Square

[00:00.22] [00:00.66].. from your universe it would look like a black hole [00:02.55]Yes, are we ready to be gods? [00:03.86]Now, ehh, suppose you came upon this equation and unleash it [00:09.84]And give the world the kind of power you're talking about [00:13.05]Godlike... power [00:15.24]Wouldn't you think twice or three times before you said [00:19.43]"Hey! I've got it!" [00:21.52]What is the hallmark of science? [00:23.38]The hallmark of science is that it's reproducible [00:26.89]And in principle ... falsifiable [00:30.07]There's no going back the hands have been dealt [00:32.57]Life is the only wealth, why stop at managing health [00:34.66]Wait til they find out that man is enhancing himself [00:37.65]That we now have the technology to kill cancerous cells [00:40.60]The Kardashev scale, [00:41.99]Don't care if you went to Harvard or Yale [00:44.23]If you don't fight for the future, [00:45.73]You'll be a part of the sale (they sold the future) [00:48.07]You wanted to grow up so fast when you was a kid [00:49.66]Now you're trying to get back into shape stay youthful and live [00:52.65]What if I proposed a pill that would do what that did [00:55.34]You'd live 900 years like Methuselah's myth [00:57.99]What would you do with it, would you take it and swallow? [01:00.84]Or dismiss the solution and keep the age old problem? [01:03.78]I'd want to live to meet my great grand-kid's children [01:06.67]I'd love to see an exponential growth in my lyrics [01:09.32]Act like if I was immortal, [01:10.77]I'd stop being Eddie [01:12.12]But I should be able to choose whether to die when I'm ready [01:14.92]We have baby pictures of the big bang [01:19.06]These baby pictures of the big bang are [01:21.60]When the baby universe was about 300,000 years of age [01:24.53]So think of a baby being born, [01:26.63]We now have pictures of the universe an hour after birth (an hour) [01:31.32]We want a picture of the big bang as it's emerging the uterus, [01:35.02]As it's coming out of the womb (check it) [01:37.76]I never want to die, I shouldn't have to [01:39.76]I just want to take to space into the vacuum [01:42.36]Give me my own ship, let me explore the cosmos [01:45.60]The complex symphony unknown ensemble [01:48.33]The powers that be try to tell me to stop [01:50.97]But we all hail from a pale blue dot [01:53.07]Whether you like it or not [01:54.56]Use force to escape inertia [01:56.50]And celebrate my emancipation from Terra Firma [01:59.10]We are the source of where gods come from [02:02.10]Welcome, as we prepare to take you to type one [02:05.39]And you know whats more sick, as a war vet [02:08.02]I actually feel pretty honored to stimulate your cortex [02:11.04]So get lost in the vortex, it's the dark tunnel [02:14.08]Approaching the singularity of this dark funnel [02:16.82]And they're right as far as Greydon goes, Sagan got him [02:19.91]While the more gullible fell victim to the Reagan doctrine [02:22.50]Lyrically I want to be this generation's Common [02:25.19]They want us to change the message, [02:26.89]We'll just change the octave [02:28.29]The broken logic, and its basic dangers [02:30.79]All this for you to enjoy safe in your stasis chambers [02:33.82]Alright, just for the sake ... of this, discussion [02:37.46]Let us assume all of this turns out to be true [02:41.25]How big a step for humanity would [02:44.52]That be toward becoming a type I civilization? [02:48.66]Well, this would be an enormous big step with a lot of "ifs" [02:52.25]That have to be satisfied, of course [02:54.10]We're talking of inexhaustible forces of energy almost for free [02:59.38]This would be comparable [03:02.61]To the unleashing of steam power - about 150 years ago [03:05.29]So it was steam power that revolutionized the last century [03:09.88]So we're talking about a new leap on that scale, [03:15.01]If these results pan out [03:17.50]You know, that's interesting because it has always seemed like a race [03:23.72]Between self-destruction on the one hand [03:26.70]And attaining type one status on the other hand [03:30.44]