a few centuries ago?
well okay flog a dead horse
speulate ideas and concepts.

mankind is virtuallly irrelevant.
you won, because the dinosaurs were killed off.
you barely have the ability to make a fire unless somkeone gives you a BIC
with the attached BBQ.
there is no ingrained desire of knowledge.
actually the reverse is highly noted, eve the nazi early on this page.

so considering the concept of known data
the next visitors to opur planet will be tyrannasaurus rex, looking to
gRAZE.

"Joe Zorzin" wrote in message
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A few centuries ago, mankind knew nothing about many types of matter and
energy which we now understand, and which have given us great powers, for
good or bad.

So, at this time we know very little about dark matter and energy and
models
about them are necessarily simple- but, isn't it likely that they are
actually very complex in structure and that when we do understand them
better we'll gain immense new powers?

I should think science fiction writers could have a field day speculating
on
this- are they doing so? I haven't read sci fi in decades so I don't know
what the best are doing.

Just fantasizing, but I can imagine future being very impacted by better
understand of this stuff and not just the science of astronomy.

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Joe Zorzin