The future of humanity

[Gabbe]

Scotland and north ireland?

[Omega]

2012 is just another conspiracy... What's worse, is that something happens every year, whether it be a hurricane or an earthquake, and all these people are going to go saying how they were right.... Yeah, coincidences will happen.


UFOs.... I don't think there are such things, to be honest, though I do think there are aliens somewhere, but not necessarily intelligent. Based on how few "intelligent" (by modern human standards) species there are on earth (count 'em: 1) that still exist, I see no reason why aliens aren't just going to be closer to our every day insects. Who knows? With thousands of galaxies, there must be other life somewhere, though the biggest question is: will we ever reach them? The nearest star system is still light years away, something humans cannot hope to reach in our lifetime with current technology, and to be honest, traveling at light speed isn't something I see happening...

We are either alone in our universe, or we are not. Both theories are shocking.

[Gabbe]

Yeah, we would need something to keep our bodies preserved in a hibernatic state if we ever to reach another star system

[wciow]

We are either alone in our universe, or we are not. Both theories are shocking.

Well personally I think its probable that there is some kind of other life in the universe even if its just a few simple bacteria or plants.All I can hope is that some form of extraterrestrial life is found within my life-time in our solar system.

Unless we develop FTL travel we are going to be stuck in our own solar system looking out on a huge universe we can never physically explore. Whether FTL travel ever becomes a reality certainly looks doubtful now and if it is possible is hugely unlikely within the life-time of anyone alive today.

[Mark]

Well personally I think its probable that there is some kind of other life in the universe even if its just a few simple bacteria or plants.All I can hope is that some form of extraterrestrial life is found within my life-time in our solar system.

If there is life in the universe, it may not be like ours.  I don't know much about the subject (I am reading The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins right now) but life in the universe could also have evolved based on silicon, rather than carbon.  The likelihood of finding intelligent life within physical contact range is low, but we may be able to communicate if we can find it.  SETI has not found any complex alien waves that would suggest alien life trying to contact us.  Actually, that may be good because the aliens might want to conquer us- Stephen Hawking thinks aliens would.

 

Yeah, we would need something to keep our bodies preserved in a hibernatic state if we ever to reach another star system

We would to put humans into some kind of stasis that didn't kill us.  People have been frozen, but they can't necessarily be thawed.

[John.d.h]

If there is life in the universe, it may not be like ours.  I don't know much about the subject (I am reading The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins right now) but life in the universe could also have evolved based on silicon, rather than carbon.

You may find this interesting.

[Gabbe]

We would to put humans into some kind of stasis that didn't kill us.  People have been frozen, but they can't necessarily be thawed.

which would be "human" hibernatic state?