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Old 05-11-2006, 08:47 PM
BigSoonerFan BigSoonerFan is offline
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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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Old 05-11-2006, 09:12 PM
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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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Old 05-11-2006, 09:29 PM
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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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Old 05-12-2006, 12:02 AM
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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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Old 05-12-2006, 12:59 AM
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the next time the Rangers win the Stanley Cup

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NH sir.
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Old 05-12-2006, 02:41 AM
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Have you read The Singularity is Near, but Ray Kurtzweil?
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Old 05-12-2006, 03:24 AM
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Default Re: What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witn

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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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Old 05-12-2006, 10:56 AM
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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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Old 05-12-2006, 07:13 PM
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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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Old 05-12-2006, 07:38 PM
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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.
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