Scary technology

[Fluory]

Aliens? In the sense of life on another planet, yeah, I find it hard to believe that earth would be the only planet amongst a great many to have life. There has to be somewhere with living beings. Although it's very doubtful they'd be in this solar system, it seems.

[Spade]

The thing I find scary about aliens is wether they will be friendly or not. Imagine a whole planet of aliens from the E.T. movie! ;D

I am very interested to know what lies below the frozen surface of Europa. Afterall, scientists speculate that below the ice is a massive liquid ocean, so who knows what type of life may lie below.

[Spade]

Probably a bunch of fish. E.T. fish!
E.T. phone everyone! rack up huge phone bill for parents! ;D

[contention]

First of Narcissus, we all have our own style of writing, some of us do things diffrently than others do. However, this does not tear apart any frame in which we say things. It's all about the effort put into the post. There are those who can write things short and sweet, and others who like to devulge themselves into a bigger saying. Some as well continue to ask questions in their post, while others may not. It's all a part of how everyone is habitually raised and sectioned into the world. However, you can not change habit and you can not deprive one of their own standing in words and communication. This is a prize of society, that each of us can at least understand the other, regardless of how things may be said. The only thing to place a barrier inbetween us would be that of something simplistic such as languages. Culture as well can dig its arms into something much more large for our hearts and why we do the things we do. So before you make a statement about someones style of writing, you best look up your own words and ask yourself why you write the way you do.

As for the subject of a seperate race of aliens, why that is quite leaving the comfort of the last debate. Yet, alien life has been something that constantly seems under a type of screen, regardless of the strides made to make some clear sense out of it. No one can really tell if there is something out there which makes us who we are. Because of that, the mere belief in such things is decided upon opinion and little shattered facts that lie around. None are completely sure what is and what is not. Yet the idea of something being out there can always somehow thrive. There are many possibilities of another form of life. As humanity, we have yet to escape into the full scene of the universe. We only understand a little bit of it, and as someone earlier said we have made some small discoveries in the better of life. Such as water underneath the surface of other grounds. Because of this, it can be believed that there might indeed lie some type of older civillization in these parts. No one can be certain though, due to the loss of information on these grounds. They are desolate places, and we alone do not have enough to gain farther territory.

However, there is one theory that could jump into the seat of your question. You asked if there was a mirror race to us, there might not be, but there indeed could be a plane of reality that involves us. Some call this Quantum Physics, are going into a new set of whats real and whats not. It's hard to explain, but you could set it up that the world is placed into layers. Every choice you make sends you into a diffrent layer, however there are other layers in time that commence the other actions. So, you can put it like this: Today you wake up and you move out of the left side of your bed. In some other section of reality, you wake up and you move out of the right side of your bed. Yet, you will never make contact with this other choice because you are living your own life. It's in a way, a base of things that never happen. It's something pretty big, and there are likely more who could deepen the thought into the field, maybe make more sense of how we are seperated into thin lines of father time itself.

[Spade]

Big words. Brain hurt. Anyhoo, contention, I wasn't really making fun of u or nething, I was just saying your posts are long, and then I lse more energy when I scroll down the page.

Anhoo(again!), back to tech. do you think we'll ever make a real noisy cricket? you know, the gun form the Men In Black movies? I would love to have one, if only for bragging rights! ;D

[Lord of the Dance]

Roboraptors look fun, to say the least for A.I.
As for aliens, here's what I think, what with the Voyagers and all. In about a thousand years, the aliens are going to pick up our satellites. Then, in another thousand years, we're going to get some wierd signal that translates as "...What?"

Back into technology, there's really no limit to what people can do. It's just a matter of do they have the time to do it, and do they have the money?

[Andreshi]

You know, people from the post-internet era wouldn't believe about the internet. The only thing scares me about technology, is when you put it in the hands of an idiot. Well, beside the Tokyo Mega-Piramid, the only thing I'm looking forward to technology is virtual reality, of course, by the time they finish building the Tokyo Mega-Piramid, I'll be dead... (Is it possible for someone from before the 21st century to live to the year 2110? Maybe if they invent a way to make you young again, but that'd be messing with the morals of life and death)

About the aliens part, it only depends on their planet's resources to see how advance they are. Of course more question rise like, what do they look like, I mean, they look like the races from Meteos for all we know, or maybe they're just another human race.

[Spade]

Virtual reality rocks! It would be cool if virtual reality became like the internet. Instead of just typing on a keyboard, we could look like our characters, and walk around and communicate verbally ;D


BTW: i might not post too much for the next week, I have exams and stuff

[Graedius]

docyoshi4 said:

Virtual reality rocks! It would be cool if virtual reality became like the internet. Instead of just typing on a keyboard, we could look like our characters, and walk around and communicate verbally ;D

Well, to be truthful, this is what I see as the very opitome of technology, both for entertainment purposes, as well as perhaps the usual human abuse of something potentially good.

Obviously, the world around us is one we see, feel, sense, because it's how it's being perceived by our brain through our body, right. Reality as we know it and define it is what we're existing in as our brain perceives it. Well, if a machine could be created to directly interfere and alter that as you see fit, the whole conception of reality would be blown away -- there would be very literally no difference, except one could be perfect, without flaw, exactly as you (or another) perceives it.... it could be a true man-made heaven or hell...

It would give life it's ultimate point, while perhaps at the same time destroying it entirely.

[jukku]

The only way I can see the earth ever being able to make contact with foreign life is to come prepared for war. (note I'm talking hundreds of years in the future)

If they wish for peace, let us safety our weapons, but remain vigilant

If they wish ill fate upon us, we should unlease a massive assault upon their homeworld, let not a single one survive, not even the young.

Or screw that, just nuke the atmosphere all to hell. Destroy any shield from solar rays coming from the planet's sun. Within months, civilization would collapse from the massive amounts of disease and deformed young.

[Graedius]

I doubt such a future would be too far ahead of us. As time goes on, signifigant advances in technology happen quicker and quicker. think about it.

It took like 5000 years from the Stone ages of humanity to Bronze Ages where metal tools were mined, used, and created efficiently... it took 700 years from 1000AD to 1700AD where there were few signifigant advances in technology... however from 1800-1900 signifigant scientific and medical advancements were made, and even more from 1900-1950 -- and then now look at the massive technology jumps from 1950-now.

[contention]

If we ever did happen to come in touch with something of another life form, as you said there might be certain things that we as a race should take into consideration. Yet even if there is a sign for a large amount of warefare, total annilihation of the other form is likely that of a very unstable choice. If one was to march into an unchartered field of life, you might discover certain valuable mechanics that are not of the same form here. This could be at a disadvantage, for we would not understand what they had so long kept and worked on. Because of this, our knowledge of what they could throw or way would be totally disjointed. If we were to stumble onto field we would likely be running in nothing more but a "Fog of War". We would not be able to define the lands around us, nor be able to make sense of what we should prepare for. This would lead to certain downfalls in our lines, and likely the bending of our own offense. Therefore, even if a sign of hatred was sent our way, falling into the loop could mean a certain taste of unnatural things.

Now we may of course, as you said, might have one certain advantage over them. This being the diffrence between our immunities and their immunities. Yet, we to would lie in the open if we were to commit acts of a higher magnitude of virus spreading. Since we would be oppisite, certain diseases would spread among our civillizations. We could indeed wipe them out with a mere disorder from our own species. Of course, this is actually something shown in the movie, "War of the Worlds". While just a movie, that is a very true statement. Our atmospheres work diffrently, and would be filled with foreign forms of bacteria. Since they would not be able to cure these malfunctions, they would soon fall. However, any contact with them could leave us out in the middle for a very large sign of fire. Slowly leading to a fall in our own balance of power. While both might crash, that would leave no victor. Yet, some do say there is no victory in war.

Now none can really make any true source of this information because it all seems so very mythical. While mankind may stumble upon farther planets in the future, who knows what will be there. Maybe life does not exist elsewhere, maybe it does. Maybe we will soon be able to transfigure DNA, maybe we won't. These questions are merely stalled because of our moral virtues. Certain actions aren't taken because religion does not deem them as being worthy or right in nature. Yet as time moves on, such things lose their grip, and society continues to grow and flourish. All for newer things, for bigger ideas, to break the bonds of what we know and change life as it is. Take things like "Natural Selection and the Origin of Speices" To the discovery that the Earth Revolved around the sun.
As you said there Graedius, most of it is actually moving faster, because it seems the farther time goes the more our moral outlook is changed.