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Today Mars is a mere 34,646,418 miles away, and it'll be 60,000 years
till its as close again. 60,000 years ago humanity was living in caves. Anyone care to have a guess what human society will be be like in 62,003 AD? I for one hope we are spread through this galaxy with a galaxy wide society like in 'Star Wars' [movies and novels] and with similar technology. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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"Christopher" wrote in message ... Today Mars is a mere 34,646,418 miles away, and it'll be 60,000 years till its as close again. 60,000 years ago humanity was living in caves. Anyone care to have a guess what human society will be be like in 62,003 AD? I for one hope we are spread through this galaxy with a galaxy wide society like in 'Star Wars' [movies and novels] and with similar technology. There's no way to predict what humanity will be like in 600 years, let alone 60.000 years. Almost certainly we will have colonized our solar system and the Galaxy by then. |
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:23:49 -0000, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote: (Christopher) : Today Mars is a mere 34,646,418 miles away, and it'll be 60,000 years till its as close again. 60,000 years ago humanity was living in caves. Anyone care to have a guess what human society will be be like in 62,003 AD? I for one hope we are spread through this galaxy with a galaxy wide society like in 'Star Wars' [movies and novels] and with similar technology. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill Stop being an idiot by stop getting your space information out of dumb newspapers. The Daily Mail isn't a dumb newspaper. Mars will be as close as it is now in August 28, 2287. Check out: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/spa...s.close.up.ap/ Or atleast learn to use Google before you post. Earl Colby Pottinger -- I make public email sent to me! Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets, OpenBeos, SerialTransfer 3.0, RAMDISK, BoatBuilding, DIY TabletPC. What happened to the time? http://webhome.idirect.com/~earlcp Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:33:56 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Christopher) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Stop being an idiot by stop getting your space information out of dumb newspapers. The Daily Mail isn't a dumb newspaper. laughing No, it just prints dumb stuff, and some people are dumb enough to believe it. -- simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole) interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org "Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..." Swap the first . and @ and throw out the ".trash" to email me. Here's my email address for autospammers: |
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Christopher wrote:
Today Mars is a mere 34,646,418 miles away, and it'll be 60,000 years till its as close again. 60,000 years ago humanity was living in caves. Anyone care to have a guess what human society will be be like in 62,003 AD? I for one hope we are spread through this galaxy with a galaxy wide society like in 'Star Wars' [movies and novels] and with similar technology. So do I, but.... Unless some form of FTL travel turns out to be both possible and practical, then we can assume there would be no human presence much beyond 60,000 light years at such time. And remember, space development doesn't occur in a vacuum (pun intended), what *else* has happened socially and technologically by then? Certainly we'll have learned to give ourselves indefinite life spans, though many will (if it's possible) have 'uploaded' themselves into non-organic forms. (Either one means interstellar travel time will be viewed differently than today.) Advanced nanotechnology may well have made the construction of any possible device or stable configuration of matter (contingent on the availability of the desired elements) almost trivial. Food, space colonies and starships for everyone. One might ask if numan nature will change. Will we even *want* to expand into space? Answer: as long as even a small fraction do, it'll happen. Extraterrestrial contacts? Currently impossible to estimate. Anywhere from next week to never. (But if the answer is 'never,' we'll know the reason why, well before then.) Expect massive social diversity among expanding humanity (some of which will become something other-than-human), *espically if FTL travel or communication can't be done. The relative isolation (which some will have actively sought) insures this. Personally, I think any attempt to guess what will be happening, more than just 200-300 years off, however, is hardly more than fantasizing. (Even Star Wars, according to early, unreleased movie posters, was to be set around 3000 AD, but later changed to the non-specific; 'Long long ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.') The impact of too many things we have good reason to believe to be possible, will be difficult to predict, and there will always be *complete* suprises of one sort or another.... |
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:17:32 GMT, Joann Evans
wrote: Christopher wrote: Today Mars is a mere 34,646,418 miles away, and it'll be 60,000 years till its as close again. 60,000 years ago humanity was living in caves. Anyone care to have a guess what human society will be be like in 62,003 AD? I for one hope we are spread through this galaxy with a galaxy wide society like in 'Star Wars' [movies and novels] and with similar technology. So do I, but.... Unless some form of FTL travel turns out to be both possible and practical, then we can assume there would be no human presence much beyond 60,000 light years at such time. And remember, space development doesn't occur in a vacuum (pun intended), what *else* has happened socially and technologically by then? Certainly we'll have learned to give ourselves indefinite life spans, though many will (if it's possible) have 'uploaded' themselves into non-organic forms. (Either one means interstellar travel time will be viewed differently than today.) Advanced nanotechnology may well have made the construction of any possible device or stable configuration of matter (contingent on the availability of the desired elements) almost trivial. Food, space colonies and starships for everyone. One might ask if numan nature will change. Will we even *want* to expand into space? Answer: as long as even a small fraction do, it'll happen. Extraterrestrial contacts? Currently impossible to estimate. Anywhere from next week to never. (But if the answer is 'never,' we'll know the reason why, well before then.) Expect massive social diversity among expanding humanity (some of which will become something other-than-human), *espically if FTL travel or communication can't be done. The relative isolation (which some will have actively sought) insures this. Personally, I think any attempt to guess what will be happening, more than just 200-300 years off, however, is hardly more than fantasizing. (Even Star Wars, according to early, unreleased movie posters, was to be set around 3000 AD, but later changed to the non-specific; 'Long long ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.') The impact of too many things we have good reason to believe to be possible, will be difficult to predict, and there will always be *complete* suprises of one sort or another.... nods I still like the idea that the society and settings for the SW movies are a *vision* of things to come. Pity I won't live long enough to see it happen. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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In article , Christopher wrote:
The Daily Mail isn't a dumb newspaper. laughing No, it just prints dumb stuff, and some people are dumb enough to believe it. Its a better newspaper then The Sun. A friend of mine got a photo in the Sun, the other day. I was ashamed. Regardless, "a better newspaper than The Sun" is somewhat like saying "a richer country than Mali"; it doesn't so much narrow the field as define the baseline. -- -Andrew Gray |
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