Posted on 12/25/2016 1:35:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One I never saw....thanks!
I always loved her shows.
This sort of naive yearning and dreaming, combined with the scientific and technological ability to make it reality, will lead to things hideous beyond imagining. As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
It can work both ways. Do you think technological achievement has not been foreseen or approved of by God? I see Gods hand in our improving lives and the reduction of many sorrows. Christendom has been at the heart of most improving technology.
There is no reason that God cannot work to do good through technology. Perhaps it is part of God’s plan to use mankind to spread life throughout the Universe.
Bttt
As we say here in Texas, “Aw, HELL, no”....
That was my first thought - Scientists smoke dope, too.
I prefer the story where God speaks everything into existence....Merry Christmas.
Nano technology will make changes we can hardly imagine in the not distant future
Nah, the asteroid is going to wipe out mankind and bring back the displaced dinosaurs first, so that proves the humanity explosion thing is Fake News for click bait.
It's going to take 30 years or more to fix the mess we have made in the last 60 years...
Considering a large part of the western world will be under Sharia law in a couple generations, I don't see much progress happening, unless women covered in black and beheadings, torture and no freedom is now the new definition of progress..
With technology, the world can be operated by a small, educated population enjoying a mostly life of leisure and short work hours only to maintain the machines.
The future has no place for billions of illiterate, unskilled peasants.
Yeah but if Jihad does take over, how are they supposed to shut down the internet? The means to broadcast and help the world to despise tyranny is the Internet.
Am I the only techie out there that enjoys being disconnected from time to time? Sometimes I just need to be left to my own thoughts.
Before artificial intelligence, can we put intelligence in Liberals first?
If you think California has a problem with generating enough electric power now, just wait til we are all connected together.
If we are all connected to everything, and know all there is to know, wouldn’t that make us all exactly the same?
What then would be the point of it all?
“In both these works, the exploration of space proved to be a dead end, as there is little to be gained by near-solar system interplanetary space travel and the vastness of space itself makes intergalactic space travel impossible to achieve.”
With unlimited energy available (both solar and nuclear), the solar system alone offers hundreds of times the livable habitat available on Earth. Raw materials abound in asteroids, comets, moons and planets. It was just discovered that Ceres contains vast amounts of water. Constructing massive space habitats is within the reach of current technology, as well as colonizing the Moon and planets.
Even the Oort cloud is available, again with unimaginable resources and wealth. Eventually, and perhaps sooner rather than later, interstellar ships will bring humanity to new star systems, and Man will become an interstellar species.
Intergalactic travel won’t be of interest for a very, very long time if ever. The Milky Way has over 100 billion stars to explore in its own right.
The future is very literally boundless.
I tell my wife, from my time in intelligence, that if they’re presenting something to you as science fiction, they probably already have it.
Despite Gilbert Ryle's gentle mockery there does actually appear to be a ghost in the machine and we don't know what it is or where to find it. "We" aren't going anywhere until we do.
It is already happening.
ADHD results in wiring in the human brain that does not cease creating connections when a child approaches 21-years of age as is normal. Instead, the brain continues creating connections until the age of 24 to 26. That is why it is important to prevent youngsters from using illegal drugs and alcohol before they are in their late 20s.
The amazing thing here is that brain capacity can be expanded within the braincases many of us already possess.
“...the solar system alone offers hundreds of times the livable habitat available on Earth.”
I appreciate your thoughtful response, but I respectfully disagree. The Sahara Desert is vast, but few people would choose to live there. In the near solar system, everything necessary for life would have to be brought along and generated locally, including the air you breathe. Whatever raw materials you might find would have to be heavily processed in difficult conditions. Everything you did would be an effort to recreate in a distant place what you already have close at hand here on Earth.
Interplanetary space travel is driven by the search for another Earth-like planet. The practical realities of such travel makes it unlikely that you’d ever find such a planet or be able to get there if you did.
The future for Man is not “boundless”. Only God is boundless with the Universe being less so. To assert otherwise is simply post-modern atheistic hubris expressing Man’s lack of humility.
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