Weren't we supposed to have flying cars and metallic bodysuits and mile-high buildings and daytrips to Jupiter by the year 2000?  Who feels gypped?
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Lets hope we don't get them anytime soon. We have enough trouble with people not being able to control automobiles and trucks. Can you imagine the havoc if people were out flying around with the same degree of care and skill they use in their vehicles? \n\nMaking things fly takes a lot more energy than just making them move. Flying cars would hardly be considered green machines.
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mebbe they live only in the solar system or the milky way!!!!!!!an the population must also have increased u know.......and mebbe the authors are mad..they lack common sense.........or its just 2 make the show interesting.........or they must have run out of ideas.
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Technological advances.\n\nMany of the miniaturized components that we take for granted when we listen to our IPods or film someone with our less than one pound video camera are a direct result of the space program as they need to make components as small and light as possible in order to get the items into orbit.\n\nSome of the compression algorithms that we all use to send large files through the Internet are a result of NASA having to create them to receive data from the damaged Galileo mission to Jupiter.\n\nAre you aware of global warming and the hole in the ozone layer? NASA...\n\nDo you like the fact that weather reports show satellite images of storms headed for you that are currently hundreds of miles away in the middle of the ocean?  NASA...\n\nAre you impressed by cochlear implants that allow deaf people to hear for the first time?  NASA...\n\nEver thrown a Nerf Glider?  NASA...\n\nAs you can see, NASA has done a TON of positive things for Americans.  This just scratches the surface.
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100 years might be a bit quick, but I think this may happen faster than one might think at first.\n\nRay Kurzweil is a well-known predictor of technology trends and suggests that the technology to 'move' a person from their brain to an electronic replica will happen in the not-so-distant future. Once this is possible, the technology needed for interstellar flights will be greatly simplified because any approach to transport a human (as they currently live, in a biological body) would consume incredible resources just to provide an environment in which they could survive.
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Well I feel so the way U feel.Its a wastage of time,money and also the fuel(which is already very less).\nBut,there is no alternative. Earth is over-crowded and we have to find living conditions on other Planets.So,Its important.
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With billions of planets out there it would be naive to think we were the only life,, as for abductions although possible I seriously doubt it..
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Round seems to be our perception of the future, and of higher technology.  Look ar all our movies, the cars are always rounder than those of today.  WE think aliens are futuristic, so I guess that means they should be round.
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To think that we are the only life in all of space is absolutely ludicrous. Our "sun" which is a star, is one of millions of stars known to our infant form of life. To think that there is not a planet with life around at least half of those stars is downright stupid. We have only had technologically advanced life for a couple of thousand years, with truly technological advancement for a hundred and fifty or so. We cannot even fathom the thought of travel at the spped of light. To a civilization of  20,000 years or more, this may be a part of everyday life.\nJust for the record, I am not a "Treckie", or anythiung stupid like that. Just a real life thinking American!
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You should do your own homework.\n\nThis is not hard.  You know how far you have to go, and you know how fast you are going.\n\nIt would be hard to drive on Jupiter because it has no surface.
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good question.. u seem to think like the wachowski bros : ) .\n\nMaybe we are.. everyone's stuck on ZION and our virtual lives are on plane earth!!
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It depends on your goal. From your extended question it sounds as if we should be terra-farming extra solar planets. i'm not sure we'll be at that point in another 1000 years, even if we put our minds to it.\n\nOne could argue quite reasonably that our CURRENT space program hasnt achieved much. the space shuttle never accomplished a fraction of what it was designed to do. The space station just kinda goes around and around. \n\nTo type out the statement  "All our efforts so far has yielded no result" on your hyper-fast micro computer connected to a planetary data network is a bit short sighted. Nearly 50 years of space exploration has produced a wealth of technological advancements. \n\nYou also have a few billion years to worry about a place to go when the sun and earth die out. Maybe less for the earth, that's probably addressed in another question.
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At first, I thought, 'sure' but then I realized that we know enough about Mars and after the excitement of lift off and weightlessness, I would be bored to death traveling for months, walking around in a Mars-suit all day while there, traveling for months to get back with a few oxidized rocks... \n\nSo, just save me a ticket to the ISS and I will be happy to go and spend a few weeks touring around this ol' blue planet.
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If you only realized that there is really no such a thing as global warming caused by us citizens, or by our vehicles, you would be amazed.\n\nFirst off deep space is extremely cold, and we loose our heat fast to it, it is only near the surface of the planet where we are capable of feeling the warmth. however the warmth which is created at the surface is the first thing to be lost, just go up into a mountain a few hundred feet and feel how cold it is, and only a five miles above your head you would not be capable of surviving the cold temperatures even on the warmest sunny day.\n\nThe underground nuclear tests which were done in the 1950s through 1960s did more to increase the core temperature of the earth than anything which we can do above it.\n \nour planets core will take along time to cool with respect to those tests, possibly a thousand years, also with respect to those tests we peppered our planets surface with radioactive dust, which now causes lung cancer, however everybody wishes to spin the lie that lung cancer is being caused by second hand smoke, and direct smoking,  when this is not the truth at all, I never here mention of the nuclear testing which actually has brought about this state of affairs.\n\ninstead they attack the tobacco industry, and the persons who they use to encourage to smoke because they were making great taxes from it, as they still continue to do today, although today they wish to blame this cancer problem on you and I, and take away a legal product which we are now hooked on, and only to mask the damage which nuclear testing has brought about.\n\nyes, our planets surface cools quickly, but our planets core is much like a hot water bottle, which once raised by even a minimal amount of degrees, will take many years to cool, and sorry to say we will continue to see strange weather patterns like El Nino, and Catrina, and sunami Ocean tides caused by earth quakes because of it.\n\nYes I stand amazed, and in true awe of the short memory which our citizens have, and there inability to recognize the truth unless slapped in the face with it, however now that I have brought this to your attention, I believe you will understand the logic, and the truth in it.\n\nWhen I was a child, I remember hearing the warnings on the radio, alerting parents not to let there children go outside and play as radioactive clouds were passing over our state, and I grew up in Iowa, I now live in Colorado which is very close to Nevada, and you would not believe the number of people coming down with cancer here, and dieing because of it.\n\nAlso Christopher Reeves Wife recently passed away "God rest her soul", and she died of lung cancer, and never smoked a day in her life, and Fox News came out and told the story, and also talked about how so many people who have never smoked a cigarette a day in there life were developing lung cancer, and dieing because of it. and they never even conceived of the truth of the nuclear testing which started all of this.\n\nRadioactive clouds do not just passover any state with no effect, clouds by nature form water droplets, which trap the radioactive molecules with in there structure, and when the clouds release there water by nature, they carry all of those radioactive molecules with them, and release it into what ever they make contact with including soil, homes, and upon people who are out in the rain.  also once the water evaporates, the radioactive molecules do not diminish, they remain, and are picked up, and carried into the air that you and I breeth and lung cancer is formed in those persons who are not as resistant to it, or who have been subjected to higher quantity's over time.\n\nJohn Wayne 'God rest his soul' shot a movie in a Nevada desert shortly after the nuclear testing, and while riding the horses there was allot of dust raised, and he, and many other people who shot that movie developed severe cancer because of it and died a horrible deaths.\n\nPlease
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Taking your points in order, and then answering the question:\nIf there were nothing in space, then there is no Moon, no planets, no Sun.  Absurd.\nWhile some planets, such as Jupiter, have poisonous gases, others do not.  Poisonous to us does not, of course, necessarily mean poisonous to other life forms.  Check out, for example, anaerobic bacteria, terrestrial life forms which find oxygen a deadly poisonous gas.\nIf we had all the resources we need on Earth, we would not be running low on oil, silver (no new sources found in over 80 years), and many others in short supply.  And even if we have not run out yet, necessarily we will eventually run out so long as we live on a finite planet.  Isaac Asimov calculated we would run out of most resouces by the year 2500.\nWhile the budget for NASA runs around $8-10 billion per year (depending on the year you look at), there is already an economy derived from space which exceeds that amount.  This includes spin off consumer products such as home computers and live television broadcasts from around the world as well as vastly improved weather forecasting.  Resource satellites have been used to find mineral desposits.  And private industry such as Bigelow is now moving into space, so that the government's seed money is functioning much like the seed money that was used to pay for the Lewis and Clark expedition 201 years ago.  That is, the government having proved it is possible, the citizenry moves in and exploits it, with the government raking off taxes.
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Because only 30 years ago, the same scientists were talking about the new ice age that was coming.\n\nAnd, historically, the Earth goes through hot and cold cycles. Greenland was once green. Ohio was once covered in glaciers.\n\nAnd right now, the sun is going through a cycle of increased activity. Mars is getting warmer, too. They don't have SUVs there.\n\nAs for whether there is any significant human activity contribution to the current increase in temperature, there is no data that suggests this.\n\nBut are you willing to cause civilization to collapse because of an unsubstantiated enviro-wanker scare tactic? The staggering cost of putting something like Kyoto into effect would cause a severe world depression worse than the Great Depression.\n\nDon't beleive the hype - someone is feeding you a load of bull.
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YAY Spacehoppers... they were totally cool!  Can't you get adult sized ones somewhere?  Sure I have seen them before (I'm going to go look...) - Great idea banning cars and giving everyone Spacehoppers in return - at least you would be able to drink and bounce!  There would be less fatalities and no speeding - LMAO!  I think it would make a better world all round!  Hee hee!\n\nFound some...\n\nhttp://www.tsttoys.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=722&osCsid=a19be4f49dda08459405efc754d28858\n\nWOOHOO - I'm gonna gets me a Spacehopper, yeehaw!
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Sounds like a science fiction book tale.  Science fiction has rarely been accurate in their projections into the future.