We’d Be Colonizing Other Planets

Throughout history, many attempts at the advancement of science and knowledge have been stopped, often by religious groups, who attacked and destroyed libraries and killed or otherwise persecuted those who were seeking the knowledge. Persepolis, the Library of Carthage, the Library of Alexandria, and countless others, many during the dark ages. If none of these things had happened and science and discovery were instead encouraged and records preserved, imagine how much more advanced we’d be by now. Technology would have been being developed at a much greater level hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, and we’d probably already have colonies on multiple planets, among all sorts of other things.