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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: blurks on March 23, 2017, 04:13:25 pm --- --- Quote from: badATchaos on March 23, 2017, 01:09:02 pm ---If humans are still around in 2050, that is. --- End quote --- Humans will always be around. Our species is cancer to the earth like cockroaches are to us. You can't get rid of them. --- End quote --- All it takes is one planetwide catastrophe to wipe us out. And Earth is overdue for one (it's about a 5,000 year cycle, give or take, go research it, it's kind of interesting). This is why Stephen Hawking said that to ensure the survival of humanity, we MUST spread out into space. That it's far from a waste of money and manpower. |
| blurks:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on March 23, 2017, 04:39:26 pm ---All it takes is one planetwide catastrophe to wipe us out. And Earth is overdue for one (it's about a 5,000 year cycle, give or take, go research it, it's kind of interesting). This is why Stephen Hawking said that to ensure the survival of humanity, we MUST spread out into space. That it's far from a waste of money and manpower. --- End quote --- With all due respect but these apocalyptic scenarios are oftenly based on overly pessimistic projections from the past into the future. I know about the fragility of the earth's ecosystem and the dangers of super-volcanoes, virus pandemics and the possibilities of asteroid collisions but the first 2 scenarios aren't likely to be able to wipe out our complete species. Isolation will always let some individuals survive. The only real critical danger lies in the darkness of space and - in a few billion years - in the sun becoming a red giant. |
| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: blurks on March 23, 2017, 05:06:34 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on March 23, 2017, 04:39:26 pm ---All it takes is one planetwide catastrophe to wipe us out. And Earth is overdue for one (it's about a 5,000 year cycle, give or take, go research it, it's kind of interesting). This is why Stephen Hawking said that to ensure the survival of humanity, we MUST spread out into space. That it's far from a waste of money and manpower. --- End quote --- With all due respect but these apocalyptic scenarios are oftenly based on overly pessimistic projections from the past into the future. I know about the fragility of the earth's ecosystem and the dangers of super-volcanoes, virus pandemics and the possibilities of asteroid collisions but the first 2 scenarios aren't likely to be able to wipe out our complete species. Isolation will always let some individuals survive. The only real critical danger lies in the darkness of space and - in a few billion years - in the sun becoming a red giant. --- End quote --- It's not based on what if scenarios, it's based on the history of the Earth, stuff that has already happened. These extinction-level events have already happened, more than once, that's why they know it's about every 5,000 years, give or take. There have been extinction-level events long before humanity ever existed. If they didn't happen, then humanity wouldn't even be around probably, this would still be a world full of dinosaurs, or a world full of crustaceans and sea-life. And Stephen Hawking is arguably the single smartest man on the planet, I'm not one that's about to question his reasoning. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
In the year 2050 scientists will have invented teleportation beacons that allow you to emerge from your world into a augmented reality through body suits and sensors and play with your friends in the 1st person virtual reality matrix while remaining in the comfort of your own home through the power of technology advancement. Gaming will evolve into a immersive matrix with headsets in which you enter the game world rather than play on a screen. You become the game. 4D Hologram technology, far beyond the human retina. You are the soldier in online multiplayer, nothing seperates you from the universe anymore. No screen, no controller, just you. Real world graphics. But you still have safety and your own home when it is all done. We are moving towards this and it will happen by 2050 if their isn't a virus strand that wipes us out or an ice age or nuclear war. Their will also be hovercrafts that float using magnet roads and energy. This technology already exists to a smaller scale. They have floating speakers that use metal and polarity in magnets and a speaker floats through magnet technology. This idea will be scaled up to cars. And Solar energy will propel them. As for legacy, the gaming community will have a impact on the future similar to that of art. Old gaming will be cherished and remembered as technology advances as it always has but their will become more refined and technological means of doing it. The legacy will always be vast. |
| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on March 23, 2017, 07:12:50 pm --- --- Quote from: blurks on March 23, 2017, 05:06:34 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on March 23, 2017, 04:39:26 pm ---All it takes is one planetwide catastrophe to wipe us out. And Earth is overdue for one (it's about a 5,000 year cycle, give or take, go research it, it's kind of interesting). This is why Stephen Hawking said that to ensure the survival of humanity, we MUST spread out into space. That it's far from a waste of money and manpower. --- End quote --- With all due respect but these apocalyptic scenarios are oftenly based on overly pessimistic projections from the past into the future. I know about the fragility of the earth's ecosystem and the dangers of super-volcanoes, virus pandemics and the possibilities of asteroid collisions but the first 2 scenarios aren't likely to be able to wipe out our complete species. Isolation will always let some individuals survive. The only real critical danger lies in the darkness of space and - in a few billion years - in the sun becoming a red giant. --- End quote --- It's not based on what if scenarios, it's based on the history of the Earth, stuff that has already happened. These extinction-level events have already happened, more than once, that's why they know it's about every 5,000 years, give or take. There have been extinction-level events long before humanity ever existed. If they didn't happen, then humanity wouldn't even be around probably, this would still be a world full of dinosaurs, or a world full of crustaceans and sea-life. And Stephen Hawking is arguably the single smartest man on the planet, I'm not one that's about to question his reasoning. --- End quote --- So is that suggesting that our entire evolutionary process from tadpole to highly intelligent hairless up-right walking ape only took about 5,000 years? |
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