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Here's a mind bender, imagine what if you were dumped for a robot version of yourself! 
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
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13 Jan 2017, 3:16 pm
Jacoby wrote:
Here's a mind bender, imagine what if you were dumped for a robot version of yourself!
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
It's useless becauseit's also very likely that many things in Sci-Fi will never ever happen because they simply aren't doable.
Sci-Fi is always way overestimating the human technological progress.
You remember Back to the future's 2015?
Or what about Star Trek series which are set in 2150+?
I don't think humanity will achieve in 2150 the things we see in Star Trek; at all, even if we meet aliens like the Vulcans.
And we will probably never meet any aliens, ever; space travel and alien communication is by far harder and more complicated than it's portrayed in sci-fi; the real space is by far larger. Do you know, that *if* get so lucky to catch some intelligent lightspeed-moving signal from an alien civilization, this civilization would be probably dead ages ago, maybe millions of years ago, before we catch its signal.
So the probability to find intelligent alien forms is very ...very low.
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14 Jan 2017, 3:17 pm
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Here's a mind bender, imagine what if you were dumped for a robot version of yourself!
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
It's useless becauseit's also very likely that many things in Sci-Fi will never ever happen because they simply aren't doable.
Sci-Fi is always way overestimating the human technological progress.
You remember Back to the future's 2015?
Or what about Star Trek series which are set in 2150+?
I don't think humanity will achieve in 2150 the things we see in Star Trek; at all, even if we meet aliens like the Vulcans.
And we will probably never meet any aliens, ever; space travel and alien communication is by far harder and more complicated than it's portrayed in sci-fi; the real space is by far larger. Do you know, that *if* get so lucky to catch some intelligent lightspeed-moving signal from an alien civilization, this civilization would be probably dead ages ago, maybe millions of years ago, before we catch its signal.
So the probability to find intelligent alien forms is very ...very low.
I find that a lot of concepts in sci-fi do end up eventually carrying over to real life though...not necessarily in the year the sci-fi takes place or even the exact same way its portrayed. There is also plenty of far fetched stuff that probably couldn't happen as well. For example it would seem virtual reality technology is advancing which certainly seems in line with some sci-fi concepts, as well as self driving cars...also they can even grow meat, which could render farming real animals unnecessary.
Also no one really knows anything about aliens or their civilizations there could be some that have more advanced technology than we do and some that have less advanced, there could be humaniod life forms or crazy life forms we wouldn't even perceive as life initially because it would be so different. There could certainly be dead civilizations but with how vast the universe is I doubt earth is the only planet currently with life.
Hell there could even be more advanced aliens studying us but being careful to stay hidden and avoid interfering, no real way of knowing for sure.
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14 Jan 2017, 3:20 pm
Sweetleaf wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Here's a mind bender, imagine what if you were dumped for a robot version of yourself!
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
It's useless becauseit's also very likely that many things in Sci-Fi will never ever happen because they simply aren't doable.
Sci-Fi is always way overestimating the human technological progress.
You remember Back to the future's 2015?
Or what about Star Trek series which are set in 2150+?
I don't think humanity will achieve in 2150 the things we see in Star Trek; at all, even if we meet aliens like the Vulcans.
And we will probably never meet any aliens, ever; space travel and alien communication is by far harder and more complicated than it's portrayed in sci-fi; the real space is by far larger. Do you know, that *if* get so lucky to catch some intelligent lightspeed-moving signal from an alien civilization, this civilization would be probably dead ages ago, maybe millions of years ago, before we catch its signal.
So the probability to find intelligent alien forms is very ...very low.
I find that a lot of concepts in sci-fi do end up eventually carrying over to real life though...not necessarily in the year the sci-fi takes place or even the exact same way its portrayed. There is also plenty of far fetched stuff that probably couldn't happen as well. For example it would seem virtual reality technology is advancing which certainly seems in line with some sci-fi concepts, as well as self driving cars...also they can even grow meat, which could render farming real animals useless.
Also no one really knows anything about aliens or their civilizations there could be some that have more advanced technology than we do and some that have less advanced, there could be humaniod life forms or crazy life forms we wouldn't even perceive as life initially because it would be so different. There could certainly be dead civilizations but with how vast the universe is I doubt earth is the only planet currently with life.
Hell there could even be more advanced aliens studying us but being careful to stay hidden and avoid interfering, no real way of knowing for sure.
Now you are saying it, the best chance to encounter aliens for the time being if there's an alien species which is some form of non-organize lifeform....like some type of god-like ageless energy entities traveling in similarly non-physical vessels.
But it would be extremely difficult for organic species to travel in space that much.
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14 Jan 2017, 3:40 pm
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
Here's a mind bender, imagine what if you were dumped for a robot version of yourself!
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
The future is full of all sorts of insane hypothetical technologies that pose all kinds of ethical and social dilemmas, you can sit around thinking about it all day. I try not to since I usually arrive at the conclusion that it will destroy all of humanity, as you get older the more of luddite you feel like. Stuff movies fast, who knows where the world will be in another decade. Kind of scary.
It's useless becauseit's also very likely that many things in Sci-Fi will never ever happen because they simply aren't doable.
Sci-Fi is always way overestimating the human technological progress.
You remember Back to the future's 2015?
Or what about Star Trek series which are set in 2150+?
I don't think humanity will achieve in 2150 the things we see in Star Trek; at all, even if we meet aliens like the Vulcans.
And we will probably never meet any aliens, ever; space travel and alien communication is by far harder and more complicated than it's portrayed in sci-fi; the real space is by far larger. Do you know, that *if* get so lucky to catch some intelligent lightspeed-moving signal from an alien civilization, this civilization would be probably dead ages ago, maybe millions of years ago, before we catch its signal.
So the probability to find intelligent alien forms is very ...very low.
I find that a lot of concepts in sci-fi do end up eventually carrying over to real life though...not necessarily in the year the sci-fi takes place or even the exact same way its portrayed. There is also plenty of far fetched stuff that probably couldn't happen as well. For example it would seem virtual reality technology is advancing which certainly seems in line with some sci-fi concepts, as well as self driving cars...also they can even grow meat, which could render farming real animals useless.
Also no one really knows anything about aliens or their civilizations there could be some that have more advanced technology than we do and some that have less advanced, there could be humaniod life forms or crazy life forms we wouldn't even perceive as life initially because it would be so different. There could certainly be dead civilizations but with how vast the universe is I doubt earth is the only planet currently with life.
Hell there could even be more advanced aliens studying us but being careful to stay hidden and avoid interfering, no real way of knowing for sure.
Now you are saying it, the best chance to encounter aliens for the time being if there's an alien species which is some form of non-organize lifeform....like some type of god-like ageless energy entities.
But it would be extremely difficult for organic species to travel in space that much.
Well speaking of energy entities, I have seen some objects I'd describe that way, I had two other witnesses as well. There were 4 and they looked sort of like shooting stars or meteors in a meteor shower except instead of just falling they stopped mid-decent and started dancing around in the sky, and whenever they stopped moving at all their tails would disappear. At one point they were hovering above me and started blinking in some kind of a pattern for a short time before dancing off into the distance. I am convinced they were some kind of life forms, but not like biological organic lifeforms like people or animals.
Meh whether anyone believes this experience or not, if they were indeed alien life forms I would imagine they are of a variety that doesn't need a space craft to travel.
Also at this point with our technology it would be difficult for organic species to travel much in space...but its not impossible there could be more advanced civilizations on other planets with better space traveling ability considering the size of the universe it's possible.
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