Space will remain the final frontier, I think;

[columbus]

So you're saying that some fanatic blowing up innocent women and children as they shop for their meager needs is just sticking it to the 'evil rich'?

The web of motivations is more complex than that, but yeah basically that's it in a nutshell.
When there are billions of people without hope there will be enough of them willing to trade their life for a cause and the promise of eternal paradise to keep the conflict going.

Now that the weapons available are so lethal it's just going to get worse until we destroy ourselves or take on the real needs of the human family. I expect the former, if history is any guide.

Tom

 

[Awkward Fingers]

Define "a very long time". My best bet is about 60 to 100 years.

Clarification, sixty to a hundred years before what?
It becomes critical, or the actual downfall of civilization

 

[chlotilde]

What we rich folks refer to as terrorism is the worlds poor acquiring teeth.

if it is any consolation in the clash of civilizations…we rich 1st-worlders have been clever enough to cry pollution laws and NIMBY and are content with the 2nd and 3rd worlders sending their minions into the mines…guess who is left sitting on a cache of resources.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I think people often do not realize that the most inhospitable areas of Earth are still far more hospitable than any place that isn't on Earth.

 

[Cardboard]

I think people often do not realize that the most inhospitable areas of Earth are still far more hospitable than any place that isn't on Earth.

No, I think most people that are for space exploration have enough intrest in it, that they usually do understand, at least in part the extreemly difficult , and giant mountains of obsticles in our way.

 

[ametist]

It is simply way too expensive to leave the atmosphere with any regularity at all.

And as this article humorously illustrates, space travel can hardly be expected to spare humanity the trouble of dealing with this planet once it is too troubled to live on.

Everybody Out

Transmition to other physical realities may not all the time require physical means if soul is eternal.

 

[LuisDantas]

Transmition to other physical realities may not all the time require physical means if soul is eternal.

Big "if", that one. I doubt there even is such a thing a soul, much less an eternal one.

 

[ametist]

Big "if", that one. I doubt there even is such a thing a soul, much less an eternal one.

Yes, whatever the current studies are showing both for the space and soul studies. we are all realistic enough to get that, arent we?

What you dont remember isnt something that hasnt really happened. At the presence of another witness can be proved that it has actually happened. But as long as you dont remember it, it can still remain as something that has not happened to you.

Do you think if eternal soul was scientifically discovered it would be announced in newspapers? What happens to the crediblity of the physicists,scientists who tend to study in the area and translate it to the lay people language? Why it happens that way? What kind of experimental tools are needed to make a study on that and who can actually finance it? Why any findings should be announced to society if such is the case? That spirit is eternal..


In short, already people dont like to hope, it is like the global choice of humanity for many centuries. Probably you know it from yourself,too.

If there is too much of oppresion inside of yourself any sudden release probably disturbs the system and your whole system might disfunction. It is no good to put people into some sort of experiment even if they might choose it themselves to participate and although you know it is to a good end no matter what. An ethical problem of seniors.

 

[BSM1]

Now that the weapons available are so lethal it's just going to get worse until we destroy ourselves or take on the real needs of the human family. I expect the former, if history is any guide.

Tom

[/QUOTE]

When, historically, have we ever destroyed ourselves?

 

[Flankerl]

If it had been up to some of the Users here we wouldnt even have ships let alone airplanes.


I wonder how the people behind the mountain are, but lets better not go there!