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Finnforest
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Topic: The Year is 2800 Posted: March 27 2010 at 21:27 |
For fun. See question and choose the closest to your prediction. Feel free to say what you think will be the state of us in 800 years. If we're here what will be different? If we're not, why?
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A Person
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Posted: March 27 2010 at 21:33 |
I'm tempted to say "It won't be pretty 'cause I'll be dead by then."
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CinemaZebra
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Posted: March 27 2010 at 22:25 |
Life will become a cliched apocalyptic movie. Not pretty at all.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: March 27 2010 at 23:33 |
One show provides all the evidence: Futurama. They showed civilization dying off several times between now and the year 3000, so I'm going to say Yes, but it won't be pretty.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 01:17 |
How do you define "pretty"? I don't see any reason for us to collapse significantly. Cities have existed for 10,000 years, I don't see why they won't last another 800.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 02:11 |
Voted for : Yes but it won't be pretty*
*Probably to be inferred that humandkind will be even less loveable than we are now.
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 05:56 |
Damn, I meant to say toasted... Anyway, I think temp levels will be much higher than today (and not only from man-made global warming) so I guess life will be very hard, or even impossible
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 06:25 |
I voted for the second option. I think in the future the natural sources that are in reach will be gone and our world is ruined by war and conflict on the last natural sources that are in reach. To make things worse, we have spilled lots of money by several failed attempts to make life on Mars possible. Also, the financial crisis will never end and global warning will still be a point of discussion.
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zappaholic
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 10:22 |
Whether global climate change is true or not, the human race will have killed itself off in wars by then.
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The T
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 16:40 |
Thanks to the global warning naysayers, we're probably going to have to be someplace else. The question is whether in 800 years we can develop technologies to travel and colonize other locations...
Subtract a few years of human existence for every 4 that the GOP holds power in the US. (though, if that happens, we'll all be owned by 5 guys who will have so much power that actually will manage to flee the planet... therefore, sentient beings will remain... Now if I want to call them human I'm not sure... )
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 18:48 |
^^ Yes, the human race is doomed because of a farking political party! Yes, we will exist and be OK in 2800.
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Dean
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 20:12 |
I'll bet we still won't have hover boots.
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Finnforest
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 20:15 |
As long as we still have the RPI.....
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June
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Posted: March 28 2010 at 20:27 |
Yes but not pretty.
I'm thinking WALL-E.
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Posted: March 29 2010 at 00:26 |
2800? Sure we'll be here, in a manner of speaking, though at the very least we won't be very much like we are now. We'll have survived a couple of apocalypses, seen climate change come and go, maybe nuclear winter in some areas, but that passes in time. It's very unlikely humanity will die out anytime soon even from nuclear war. 9As far as I can think the most deadly and fearful human extinction even there is is a genetically engineered virus that can attack and kill various populations of people. This, if not possible now, should be completely possible in less than 100 years). By 2800 we'd have recouped any losses, overcome human population problems with controlled breeding, food problems with effective land management (skyscraper farms etc), and have terraformed the f**k out of Mars to a point where millions or more people are living there. If humanity makes it that far, unless there's a HUGE backlash, we'll all be cybernetic and connected by some sort of wireless Internet system internally (think real-life first-person shooter HUBs and universal knowledge). I imagine there may not even be breeding per se unless there is also forced "retirement" (suicide/murder) after a certain age because in 800 years, we're certainly to have the technology to completely rebuild the human body (if maybe not the brain, completely), thus making us at least somewhat immortal.
Think about it, people. 800 years into the future at this rate of technological advance? To think we wouldn't have terraformed Mars, become cybernetic, and interconnected is not aiming too high.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: March 29 2010 at 00:56 |
Now, if you had a time machine, would you rather go into the future and find out, or travel into the past? I think I'd rather see the future, although if I could only go once I might use it to hang out with Jesus.
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stonebeard
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Posted: March 29 2010 at 01:19 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
Now, if you had a time machine, would you rather go into the future and find out, or travel into the past? I think I'd rather see the future, although if I could only go once I might use it to hang out with Jesus. |
According to some hypothesis buy a sciency guy, you could never travel back to a time when the machine you're traveling in didn't exist. No past for u.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: March 29 2010 at 01:29 |
Yeah, you're probably right. Videotaping Jesus would probably just piss off God anyway.
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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A Person
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Posted: March 29 2010 at 01:44 |
What if you go so far forward you go backward? Kind of like being so far out you're too far in.
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