we are all doomed to be slaves to a race of aliens...like that John Travolta film a few yrs ago,cant think of the name of it but its a keeper

I think the world will see much starvation as not enough food will be available . Many wars erupt around . Technology will lose its steam as man gets what he needs and more . No aliens and no outer space values whatsoever . New diseases will appear and most of today's will still be around .
Religions will disappear for good . Most men and women will be walking nude in the streets when it is hot . America and the west will see a depression after another as the losses of jobs and bankruptcies will be by great numbers and common . China will continue to consume rats , mice , dogs....etc. Russia will be more accepted around the globe than in our time . India and Pakistan will advance while Europe will fall backward in everything .....etc.

Battlefield Earth?

Science Fiction?.. Or... Facing reality.

Colonizing other planets is not a 'could we do this'. It is rather something we MUST do. One earth which is subject to probalities of occurences that could destroy us... and should I mention that we are quickly OVERPOPULATING earth...

History has shown that an overpopulation usually results in an expansion of the known world.

I don't believe in 'doomsday' scenarios... We are humans... Our spirit will not allow us to quit.

Something allways happens that allows a portion of us to continue/survive/grow.

My best guesses (we know how guesses of the future go)

In the Next 10 years we will reach the climax of standard integrated circuits, we will need to make use of Quantum circuits and Nano chips entirely within 20 years.

Within 20 years we will start to gain amazing computing power and reclaim Moores law but using light, qubits, and Nano tech. (we are still on track for moores law, but having trouble keeping pace using our old tech to create smaller and smaller chips)

Once we are constructing fully functional devices at the nano level that are on par with living machinery we will overcome biological mortality via nano bots, but this wont be cheap initially. We can make this cheap once we can set our own machinery to auto correct from backup DNA.

If Moores law holds up we will have immortals within 50 years of the time that we have a comprehensive library of all human proteins and there functions (we are working on this now, given 20 years of fully funded stem cell research I see no reason why we couldn't keep pace with the above mentioned computer tech, so again 20-70 years we gain biological immortality. (if the human brain does not develop psychosis due to unnatural life spans, then there is no reason this cant work)

If the fusion reactor in France works out, then we could have a near unlimited supply of energy within the same 50 years.

Lets hope that we do not nuke ourselves into oblivion before all this occurs.

Well, we humans have a brain, 80% of it we don't even know how to use. If we learn how to use more of our brain, the sky is the limit.

That is actually a myth. We use it all, we just don't understand it all.

I really like this topic. I actually think much of Christianity will be dead 500 years from now. Due to new scientific breakthroughs with evolution etc. It will finally put to rest creationism. And i think a lot of whats explored in 2001 a space odyssey would be helpful on the topic.

Thats it...Im surprised he didnt win an Emmy for that role..

Possibly, the world as we know it?

and I feel fine...

If gravity isn't instantaneous... it's really really fast. Quite a conundrum there though.. how do you measure how fast something is if you can't turn it on and off?

Just wanted to note the very fine R.E.M. reference.

Boo!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's thought of it.

I just want to throw in my two cents here.Having lost two members of my family to dieases that there is no cure for I fear that the answers are being held back because of the large amounts of money being made on medications.JMO
I hope that as changes occur that we as humans can have compassion for others.I am not all about doom and gloom.I have had a rough past, but now wake to sunshine and I love the snow. You can always remind yourself there are always two ways to look at a situation either as a disaster or a challenge.Never give up hope with out hope we have nothing.(Hope I didn't quote someone there.)carol

The space monsters aren't about to let us get away with this masturbatory industrialization much longer, they watch our TV shows, they know all about us and can snuff our already disarrayed civilization with but a whisper to their ultimate computer brain, the brooding computer which we will have soon too, the computer so complex it is not a machine, it is more of a moss-like independent growth of circuits which it prints itself, sprawling through our homes, quietly overwhelming, YES the aliens will "give" it to us, we floundering human beings will fight nuclear wars with each other trying to decide whether to turn this unwholesome 'mouth of a Trojan gift-horse' ON or OFF, in the end we will turn it ON, and then by God we will not be able to do WITHOUT it.REPENT!!The End Times are drawing near, the X-ists are about to land, the False Prophets will kiss their dinosaurian azzes and this planet will be sold down the river as sure as Lee Harvey Oswald's clone cashed the Conspiracy's checks.

I'll protect you mirror lol

We can hide under one of my quilts I just finished.
But if the world is coming to an end then I guess I didn't need that math anyway lmao