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Freejack2

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Dec 31, 2000
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In 7.5 billion years I will have genetically engineered myself to be immune to the sun going nova. I'll be like those brine shrimp that can survive in a sealed glass container for years. :p
 

MichaelD

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Originally posted by: Daxxax
Saw this Physicist named Dr. Michio Kaku on the show "The Screen Savers", he has some interesting ideas on humanity. He talks about three levels of a civilization. Type I, Type II and Type III. According to the rules we are not even a level 1 civilization yet. Here is a link. It's a little long but very interesting. check it out.



Link


I think in 7.5 billion years we will have long left earth and our solar system.


That was a badass article. I read every word. Really super. :) I used to watch Nova with Carl Sagan..hearing him talk about light-speed travel and "a googolplex of stars" was always cool. :)
 

MaxDSP

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May 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: Daxxax
Saw this Physicist named Dr. Michio Kaku on the show "The Screen Savers", he has some interesting ideas on humanity. He talks about three levels of a civilization. Type I, Type II and Type III. According to the rules we are not even a level 1 civilization yet. Here is a link. It's a little long but very interesting. check it out.



Link


I think in 7.5 billion years we will have long left earth and our solar system.


wow, very interesting article. If only we can live to see humanity progress towards a Type II or Type III civilization.
 

gotsmack

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Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I think everyone HERE will be gone LONG before then.

I dunno. I plan on living forever. or until someone takes my head. :: Que highlander music::
 

0roo0roo

No Lifer
Sep 21, 2002
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in 7 billions years people will laugh at how primitive startrek is:)

even dinosoars arent' billions of years old:p
 

0roo0roo

No Lifer
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i wonder where the nations of the world would be in 7billion years assuming borders remained static. continents move u know:)
 

KGB1

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Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
i thought the sun will burn out in 5 billion years?

Actually the half life of earth was 4.5 billion years. That means the Earth is probably gone before the Sun becomes grander and pretty much explodes and makes our solar system obsolete.

We can however move to other planets (ie Mars), given the technology that can become available through research and development. Because the Sun will only get big as far as the Earth. It will still be thousands of light years away from Mars and further. But without the Suns gravitational force, Mars itself will left orbitless and it just become a cold, desolate large meteor. I mean Science can help us (humans) to go into and start colonies in other solar systems. This sounds like science fiction, but surely is possible.

(on a side note, I don't play D&G, don't watch Stra Threk, War.. etc...)

My major in College WAS astrophysics and astronomy. Then it depressed me... now I'm a BIO major.

*also like the Highlander joke.... (favorite TV show I might add)
 

Derango

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Jan 1, 2002
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Originally posted by: Yield
It looks like we're all going to die...

We sure are, and its going to be a short while before 7.5 billion years. :)

yea, I'd be surprised if we lasted another 7.5 hundred years at this rate...maybe even 7.5 decades....

We're well on the way to blowing ourselves up.
 

MaxDSP

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May 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: KGB
Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
i thought the sun will burn out in 5 billion years?

Actually the half life of earth was 4.5 billion years. That means the Earth is probably gone before the Sun becomes grander and pretty much explodes and makes our solar system obsolete.

We can however move to other planets (ie Mars), given the technology that can become available through research and development. Because the Sun will only get big as far as the Earth. It will still be thousands of light years away from Mars and further. But without the Suns gravitational force, Mars itself will left orbitless and it just become a cold, desolate large meteor. I mean Science can help us (humans) to go into and start colonies in other solar systems. This sounds like science fiction, but surely is possible.

(on a side note, I don't play D&G, don't watch Stra Threk, War.. etc...)

My major in College WAS astrophysics and astronomy. Then it depressed me... now I'm a BIO major.

*also like the Highlander joke.... (favorite TV show I might add)



thousands of light years? isnt that a tad too much?
 

BooGiMaN

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Jul 5, 2001
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I wonder who will be the first one to post it on here that day.

'wow i woke up early and the sun seems to have gotten brighter and hotter , the flesh is falling off my bones due to the heat and stuff, should i go to the doctor? also on a side note im having these problems with this girl, and i need to pick out a car.....'
 

kami

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Oct 9, 1999
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It will still be thousands of light years away from Mars and further.
ROFL!
Dude, you measure the distance to mars in miles or kilometers, not light years :)
 

MaxDSP

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Originally posted by: kami
It will still be thousands of light years away from Mars and further.
ROFL!
Dude, you measure the distance to mars in miles or kilometers, not light years :)

Another quote from his post:

My major in College WAS astrophysics and astronomy. Then it depressed me... now I'm a BIO major.


exactly how much did he learn in college?