The Future
- Thread starter Teck
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Ppppffft. OK.
There will be more people.
Technology will advance.
People will still laugh at fart jokes.
That's about it.
There will be more people.
Technology will advance.
People will still laugh at fart jokes.
That's about it.
bugsysiegel
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- Jan 11, 2001
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humankind will exterminate itself within 25 years, thanks to some j/o country starting a nuclear exchange.
Strange, this morning while lying in bed, I was thinking about posting the exact same question. I was just too lazy to get around to it.
Threads on ATOT will get exponentially dumber until the forums can no longer support them, at which point ATOT will collapse in a maelstrom of locks and bans into a black-hole like board in which no intelligent life will be able to survive.
personally i think we will figure out how to stop aging all together.
this comes with its bads though, if you know you won't die of old age, you know you are going to die from a car crash or some disease or murder
heh.
this comes with its bads though, if you know you won't die of old age, you know you are going to die from a car crash or some disease or murder
heh.The Collective Consciousness has imposed a moritorium on the human future. Precognitive awareness of that future has been blocked beyond 2012.
more killing, more crime, more @shole parents blaming the music and not the fact that they don't do a damn thing when it comes to parenting.
Within the next 100 years there will be a 3rd world war that will wipe out 3/4 of the world current population. Civilization will be reduced to a few nomads and small towns. Then, in 2063, some drunken scientist in Montana will build a space craft that will change human history for ever - the Pheonix. We will also come into contact for the first time with an alien race.
Originally posted by: MacBaine
I am just hoping to be alive in 2063 for the biggest Trekker party in history
No sh!t. Talk about the ultimate "I told you so" Well, I guess by that time the tables will turn a quite a bit. I don't expect a nuclear war, but I expect a crapload of small, 'traditional' wars fought with machine guns with those extremists who have only began to rise. I think whole extremist-supporting countries can rise, but their toothless to start a big war anyway. Although it will be quite hard to supress the rising extremists.
I'm pretty sure that no contact with any alien nation will ever be possible. I do believe that aliens exist, but they're too far away. Seti intelligence search hasn't given a single positive result in more than 30 years. It only proves that people are 'alone' in their region of space.
I'm pretty sure that no contact with any alien nation will ever be possible. I do believe that aliens exist, but they're too far away. Seti intelligence search hasn't given a single positive result in more than 30 years. It only proves that people are 'alone' in their region of space.
Fritzo
Lifer
- Jan 3, 2001
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The SETI program is searching such a narrow spectrum, it's unlikely they'll find anything.
1. They're only scanning frequencies that we assume they would use (the frequency of hydrogen if I'm not mistaken).
2. They're assuming other civilizations are broadcasting "here I am" messages (why should they if we're not?)
3. Other civilizations may be too primitive to contact us, or so advanced that our communication technique is obsolete. It would be like a caveman using smoke signals to communicate with someone using email.
From the research I've seen, alien civilizations are likely to be 1000's, if not 10's of 10000's of years more advanced than us (they came up with this idea due to average planet supporting star ages). Radio may be a thing of the past for them...they could be using such exotic means of communication as worm hole transmissions or tachyon transmitters---who knows? It's also possilbe that they don't WANT to talk to us (maybe a Star Trek prime directive type thing). With the new equipment they're planning to launch in the next few years, we'll actually be able to see Earth sized planets around other stars. Soon after that, we'll be able to tell what the planet's atmosphere is made of and determine what kind of life (if any) inhabits the planet...possibly even tell what stage of development the life is at (by measuring polutants, carbon dioxide levels, and isotope levels through sprectoanalysis). I do indeed think that we will find other life within the next 40 years now that we have the right tools coming on line. As for contact...it'd be easier to find a target to contact first than to try to blindly pick one out of space.
Oh....and I also think they will cure athlete's foot once and for all!
1. They're only scanning frequencies that we assume they would use (the frequency of hydrogen if I'm not mistaken).
2. They're assuming other civilizations are broadcasting "here I am" messages (why should they if we're not?)
3. Other civilizations may be too primitive to contact us, or so advanced that our communication technique is obsolete. It would be like a caveman using smoke signals to communicate with someone using email.
From the research I've seen, alien civilizations are likely to be 1000's, if not 10's of 10000's of years more advanced than us (they came up with this idea due to average planet supporting star ages). Radio may be a thing of the past for them...they could be using such exotic means of communication as worm hole transmissions or tachyon transmitters---who knows? It's also possilbe that they don't WANT to talk to us (maybe a Star Trek prime directive type thing). With the new equipment they're planning to launch in the next few years, we'll actually be able to see Earth sized planets around other stars. Soon after that, we'll be able to tell what the planet's atmosphere is made of and determine what kind of life (if any) inhabits the planet...possibly even tell what stage of development the life is at (by measuring polutants, carbon dioxide levels, and isotope levels through sprectoanalysis). I do indeed think that we will find other life within the next 40 years now that we have the right tools coming on line. As for contact...it'd be easier to find a target to contact first than to try to blindly pick one out of space.
Oh....and I also think they will cure athlete's foot once and for all!
sad thing is that that conversation would still go smoother than trying to do so with an AOL e-mail user
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