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If you could travel to the future, when would it be?
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Originally posted by Beej
Well, that's one of the theories.
Thought you were going to bed? Well, you probably were out there making a few more universes.
Yeah, one theory, the others don't handle the paradox very well, or not at all and have the whole free will issue. That's why I like the multi-verse one, even if it is harder to visualize.
I was going to go to bed... but then I had a brilliant idea for an assignment I'm working on (an interesting one, believe it or not!) So I decided to implement my idea while it was fresh in my mind. then I checked here one last time. Then I did something else. And then I just checked this thread one more time.
Man, I can't have freewill, if I had freewill I'd be in bed now!
I swear, I'm posting this message, sleeping my machine, then going to bed. I swear!
...unless I find something else to do in the meantime...
Originally posted by eyelikeart
I know this is gonna sound cheezy...
but I'd go ahead to the future to when my lady & I can finally have a life together....
long distance relationships suck....and the suspense is killing me!!!
Hey, not cheesy at all. My wife and I lived apart for 3 years. We saw each other on weekends, and at the time, I would have chosen a chance to get to today.
Now, I'm just another money hungry lawyer! Ha, no, I'm only kidding.
If I could go into the future, I think I'd have to go forward and find a way to get lots of money! No, wait, fight the urges... I'd go forward and help mankind and get lots of money. NO, I can be good... yes, I'll go forward and get rich, no wait, I'll save the whales so I can get rich... no, damn, I'd do something really good and go forward and find a way to sue M$ and get rich in the process.
Damn those legal insticts...
Show me the money!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
(Letter from good mcrain's management: The previous comments are not endorsed by, nor representative of good mcrain's management. All comments are the sole opinion of the evil mcrain and should not be taken seriously)
(Response from evil mcrain's dictator: Blah, blah, blah... where's the cash? Hey, do you hear an ambulance?)
Why not go ahead to the future, find a cure for cancer, aids, etc. and bring it back. No one even bothered to think of this one. You'd be an immediate hero, lots of money (if you're smart and don't do something stupid and let it get away from you) and you'd be doing something that would save millions of lives.
That would be a good cause, and of course you'd bring back all that infomation on the newest G9 PowerBook......
That would be a good cause, and of course you'd bring back all that infomation on the newest G9 PowerBook......
Thanks... I picked it up on Friday and have been enjoying it all weekend, and this week so far. Everything about the new revision is better then the previous one. Even the keyboard sits better (no more slop by the arrow keys). If you have been thinking about getting a PowerBook, now is the time to do it. It seems like Apple has the supply to meet the demand (I only had to wait a couple of days to get my new one, and that was from a not from an Apple Store). I called one Apple retail store, and they had plenty of the 800MHz models in stock. Fly, don't run, don't walk, to the one closest to you and get yours.
Well look at the cockroach or shark, 100s of millions of years of history on the planet. I say if they can do it, so should we!
Besides, so many people share so much in common with them, if that's a survival traite, we all set....
I'm not referring to the human species being too old, I'm referring to the amazing steps we take to increase our personal average longevity.
When Social security and medicare were created, they were designed for the less than 1% of the population that happened to live past the age of 65. Now, it's unusual to live less than 65, thus part of the reason SS and medicare/medicaid are in financial trouble.
As a race, we're living longer. All I'm saying is that I wonder how prudent it would be to jump into the future and find ways of making us all live even longer than we already do without first figuring out population control.
This is a HUGE issue. Scientist are arleady making progress on preventing aging altogether. They're treating it as a disease that can be cured. If we end up being able to live indefinitely (not immortal, cause you could still die) the population would strangle the planet.
Well, if that does happen, there won't be any trouble finding volunteer colonists for Mars....
Oh, yeah, and the people who make KY jelly... I wonder if that's the same company??!! If it is, they've got a great combo of products... It's sort of like what good is a firewire port without a firewire drive? If you have both, things just SCREAM!!!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
ummm Bubba, you got the wrong thread there... this one is about going to the FUTURE, not the past (see the other thread for that one).
Guy doesn't know if he is coming or going
That actually might help the population problem. Even with life extension measures in effect, it won't cure heart disease and things like that. You'll die from a heart attack at 110 with a big smile on your face and look like a 30 year old!
Imagine going to a bar and trying to pick up women/men and there is no way to tell if they could be the same age as you or someone who knew your great grand parents? Such things would change the world in ways we don't even realize.
Tempting, but I will make allowances since you are in Florida/Hell. I lived there (if you can call it that) for about 10 years (about 9 too many). I am very glad to be back in MA, where we have four seasons, not just the two in FL. There you have hot and wet, and not as hot. Of course, you also need to watch out of hurricanes, tornados and water spouts. Forget about being dry during the rainy season...
I think that Japan will collapse in the next 200 +/- years, and either become more like the US (I know, scary thought), or become more like it was several hundred years ago. I see some aspects of Japan being too rigid, with other aspects wanting to break completely from those parts...
America, as we know it, will be lucky to be around in 200 +/- years. So much change is going to happen in the next century that we'll be unable to recognize much of what we know now.
Imagine someone from 1902 showing up today. Sure, they'd see people and buildings and such, but cars, plains, computers, radio, tv, modern medicine and all the hi tech stuff we do would be beyond the average person to grasp at first. Put yourself in 2102 - assuming of course that we don't kill ourselves, or endure and ice age or something like that - the things taken for granted by everyday people will be wonders to us. And I imagine that the development of technologies will be even faster in the 21st century than it was in the 20th.
And what of the global warming and melting of the ice sheets? If the water levels rise 3-4 feet (which is currently predicted) many countries are going to have serious problems. All of Amerca's coastal cities will need seawalls, Florida and the Eastern Shore of Maryland will loose a lot of land.
Given all this change we couldn't even begin to guess how it would shape world politics and society in general. I'll be happy to see the change come for as long as I live, I just hope its all things we can deal with and not have to endure unnecessary suffering.
many of my relatives live there and japan is becoming more like the us right now...maybe it's not in the press as much, but they have to deal with crime, too...but they are very good about hiding it from the outside world