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05-12-2006, 07:39 PM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
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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. [/ QUOTE ] It's sad because it probably won't happen for political reasons, not for lack of technology. 
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#32
05-12-2006, 08:04 PM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
Nancy Pelosi saying anything intelligent
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#33
05-13-2006, 12:03 AM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
Who cares? If there's no value in going to Mars, why should we go there? How about we fund cancer research or computer technology or something useful instead? Just as long as we're spending hundreds of billions, we might as well get something more from it than bragging rights.
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#34
05-13-2006, 12:16 AM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
Witnesing cool sounding doomsday things like are described here:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm But then again, who knows, maybe I will be around.
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05-13-2006, 12:32 AM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
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Have you read The Singularity is Near, but Ray Kurtzweil? [/ QUOTE ] Yep. Great book.
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#36
05-13-2006, 03:35 AM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
As far as stuff in space... ANYTHING. New planet discorveries, aliens, wormhole travel, advanced space travel, etc. whatever it is, it will be cool.
On earth, I hope I live to see the evolution v. creation/ID/faerie tales agrument finally end in favor of evolution (obviously).
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#37
05-13-2006, 04:02 AM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn
For everyone who is trying to answer this question, please think of what someone from 1920 would do if they saw, oh, I don't know, THE INTERNET in action.
How the [censored] would you predict that to come about?
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#39
05-15-2006, 07:25 PM
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Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witness?
With the rapid acceleration of technology who knows what is possible. I do not personally look foward to a sentient computer nor do I think it will happen. I have a little background in Philosophy of the Mind but am by no means an expert so my opinion is not based in enougk knowledge to be extremely informed.
I do agree with the OP in that I would like to see contact with another life form outside of our own planet. The universe is so vast and our ability to explore it is almost uncomprehensible when trying to imagine how large it really is.
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