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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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They're so smart you can't tell. It's a trap!

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It need not be intelligent, simply extraterrestrial. Hope I live long enough.

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Run out of living things to hate here on earth?

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The first journey to Alpha Centauri, it's the nearest solar system (trinary system), 4 light years away, possible Earth-like planets and life.

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the next time the Rangers win the Stanley Cup

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NH sir.

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Have you read The Singularity is Near, but Ray Kurtzweil?

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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They're so smart you can't tell. It's a trap!

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LOL, I was planning on posting this exact same response.

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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Good point...

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My parents got the moon landing. By the way things are going though I doubt I'll see a Mars landing, which is a shame.

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Knowing my luck I'll die three days before they invent the immortality pill. Seriously though if there are any scientists reading if you can get working on the society as described here I'd be much oblidged.

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I'd like to live in something like Iain Banks' the Culture series.

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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Good point...

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Without my punctuation errors I assume.