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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6254531" data-attributes="member: 8835">Meanwhile, they're arguing about an article about how long humanity may survive on the basis that the objectors didn't like the final number. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It seems to me that some chunk of the significant tech a species has is to solve big picture problems like climate change, pollution, baldness, universal expansion, stellar death, transportation, disease, genetic defects, not having a date to the prom, and so on in a way that actually works.Just consider the loneliness issue.  Let's say a species took a serious look at divorce rates and the problems some people have finding a true LifeMate.  Sure there's some folks who make it work, but most people, not so much.  With sufficient technology, a species can solve this in a way that doesn't get the guy laughed at for taking a robot to the Prom because he couldn't get a date.Instead, a person is scanned and a suitable LifeMate is generated from the ground up with the right DNA and right emotional programming so when they awaken and and lay eyes on each other, they know they've found their one true love.  Initially, the population count will increase by 50% as all the single or unhappily married fix their situation (remember, these are real, new people).  After that, parents will make plans for their offspring to get a LifeMate by this technology.  Perhaps seeding it into the local population so they can be high school sweethearts, or injecting the generated person back into the time stream to solve a person's particular difficulty in relationship finding. A family might raise two babies, one natural, one generated, just to set up a natural dynamic for the pair (they won't assume this is incest, because they know better).This is the kind of out of the box invention that Doctor Who gets involved in.  It's another reason he doesn't like guns, as those are just too blatantly brute force.</blockquote>

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