Should The Galaxy Have Been Colonized By Now?

[robousy]

...although personally I have recently began thinking that old people should be put to work in huge factories and forced to pedal on cycle machines hooked up to a massive national grid network.

 

[marcus]

...although personally I have recently began thinking...

or pessimistic people generally, since it would confirm the correctness of their expectations and thereby provide an empowering experience for them.

 

[turbo]

...although personally I have recently began thinking that old people should be put to work in huge factories and forced to pedal on cycle machines hooked up to a massive national grid network.

Would you arrange to have the "old people" receive painful shocks if we fail to pedal fast enough, or would you prefer to whip us instead?

 

[robousy]

Would you arrange to have the "old people" receive painful shocks if we fail to pedal fast enough, or would you prefer to whip us instead?

lol.

I think electric shocks would be too extreme and whips certainly inhumane.

Perhaps a device that tickled you if you failed to produce over 70 rpm.

 

[Chronos]

It would seem more efficient to implant a pleasure center stimulator powered by a generator affixed to the peddling mechanism.

 

[scott1]

Colonzation of the galaxy whould require a lot of energy.A civilation to colonize the entire galaxy whould have to a type 3 civiltion.Our civiltion has existed for 12,000 years and were still a type 0 civiltion.It should take us about 1 millon years to become a type 3 cilivtion.I don't think if there is anyother intellgent life it probally whouldn't have enough time to evole to become a type 3 civiltion.There might an type 2 cilivtion and probally a type 1 cilivtion(if were not the frist farring civiltion)We might just be in a remote region where there's really no reason to colonize.If there are any earth-like planets they might not all have intellgent life on it Earth didn't have Intellgent life for billions of years