do yall think humanity will in the future will develop interstellar travel  like hyperdrive engines.?
356639
I hope so...\n\nI would like to imagine a future of space travel for the human race.\n\nBut I have no expereince in the field to offer suggestions.
870254
we already have...\n\nits called nanotechnology...they ahvei nfused carbon nanotubes onto silicon substrates and used DNA and its complex functionality to solve problems..this has been done to a limited scope...but it is very well established that larger scale systems will be availabe in 20 years...to the functionality you describe...the first intelligent machine is expected to appear around 2025-2030.\n\nThis will take time and engineering...(these are projections based on current average rate of economic growth and research)...research is based on curretn glboal computing power, research education and lab power...which is at its most powerful form ever---but that is ONLY---if the economy doesn't, colapse for example...\n\nhowever, another alternative, taht is faster--there is a faster way to do it than yours...\n\nwe an simply get rat brain cells...and organize them on substrates so that they resemble the human brain...we make a brain out of rat cells and then we just teach it like a new born..this can be done...\n\nor we could get brains of people and just turn them into subconcious zombies and take them out of the bodie...by which we then plug them into an itnerface and we can make them do computations...\n\nhowever, that would be amoral...so we cannot do this...you will ahve to wait 25 years from now for nanotechnology and computer chips to be integrated with carbon nanotubes/DNA to see that type of functionality.\n\nI beleive at such times...we would have perfected the machine-human interfaces and will become "part" of these intelligent machines..through neural implants--.... we will be the same identity...say your computer jsut becoems you but with greater intelligence and functionality--\n\nwe can also develope identities that are INDEPENDENT of humans that can think for themselves...but for them to have a "termintator" mentality they would have to differentiate between "human" and machine...and since intelligence is just intelligence...I don't think there will be such mentality...\n\nits as if you one day woke up one day and learned your a robot...you would not want to nuke the entire human race right?\nin fact, you would identify with humans...you wouldn't care if you were a robot...just don't tell anybody.\n\nbut even if you did want to nuke all humans, that would imply you had more resources than humans, able to get their civilization from undertheir feet right?\n\nbutas I said, insuch a society, humans would plug into "machines" which were their slave.s..and gave them mroe intelligence...but the machines themselves were not "concious" themselves...\n\nso the humans...knowing how to be "cyberntically" avid...just as regular concious machines...\n\nthe machines would "loose" their edge..\nin other words...the intelligent machines would not be "smarter" than the 2025 human because that human would have also become smarter with machiens that are tied to their brain...and whih they controla nd know how to operate just as well as an intellgienct computer...\n\nthus, placing computer intelligence and human intelligence on the same level...and thus making US similar...making it less likely for any "confrontation'...\nbesdies...if ar obot was "jealous" of the extra senses of thehuman body....after acheiving such tehcnology...we could easily develope synthetic bodies made of biological /nanotech grown tissue...and thatwould make them more equal...and thus---not view us, nor we them as "different"\n\nto a point...that a "synthetic human" and a "machine enhanced human" would be almost viewed the same...\n\nthe synthetic human...just has a robotic mind....whith a human like body....the enhacned humans (probably most humans by 2045) are just human brain...with enhanced features that make it the same as a robotic mind...\n\nso in essence, they are same...\n\nyou see? its only our primit
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transporters will perform that function eventually throughout the solar system ! for work, dates, vacations, shopping, school, research, etc., our great grand children to the 5th power will consider it normal. and yes successful sub atomic transportation has already been sucessfully tested and is growing with leaps and bounds and will completely change our world as we know it !
1105186
Yes I do.  I think that it is humanity's destiny to populate the galaxy.  One stray asteroid could destroy all human life if we are all on one small planet.
967621
Well, you are correct in that sittin' around will end in our collective lifes' destruction.  And attempts at proving life beyond Earth are ongoing.  Many of the missions to Mars are currently trying to prove that (among other things).  SETI is also an attempt to see or hear if anything is out there.  But that's a shot in the dark (har, har, de har har).\n\nThere are some significant steps being made to make spacecraft that can go "fast".  VASMIR (plasma rocket) among other things.\n\nThe two technologies that will drive us into the next level of abilities are quantum and nano technology.  Those will have significant impact on everything we build and contemplate.\n\nEventually our sun will get hotter, that could boil off our oceans (way before the sun bloats).  The Earths core could also cool enough that our magnetic field dissappears.  This would cause our atomosphere to slowly whisp away.\n\nBeing able to live in more hostile environments with nearly 100% recycling ability is our greatest challenge.  WIth that, we can start making our way out of this solar system and on to the next.\n\nWrite me for more discussion.  Fa shizzle.
183073
I think they will. But humans will all (or mostly) be extinct by then. There's the controversial theory that robots evolve over time and they technically can't die, because they were never alive. So even if humans killed each other off or in some other way became extinct, robots would still be around. And if the evolving theory is true, they will be able to function on there own, as they see fit - maybe acting as humans do. They might form governments, fall in love, etc. If this ever were to happen, I think it would be a long, long way into the future.
312777
Yes, there's still research going on. And yes, the theory still holds that if we could find a wormhole and create enough anti-matter to widen and stabilise it, and then find a way of surving the journey, time travel might be possible.\n\nBottom line, everything that's a theory today will either be proved or disproved somewhere down the line. Some things, like wormhole time travel and single-lifetime interstellar travel are the scientific equivalent of steeplechases - races with big old obstacles in the way. They might seem impossible at the start, but once you start running, you either have to figure out how to leap over the obstacles or fall down at them. But human beings are good at steeplechasing - look at the challenges we overcame between 1899 and 1970 - we couldn't fly when the century began. By the time we were seventy years in, not only had we fought two world wars in the air, we'd successfully landed on the moon. Who knows what we'll achieve by 2070...
235163
still waiting on it, but personally i think the next invention ( be it what ever it may be ) will further insulate society from one another like the current state of connectivity does right now. interesting isn't he, he we are on this board posting replies, when we could be outside... connecting.. with people.. and not text..
980858
Interesting questions. Since technology seems to be evolving alongside of us, I tend to suspect out bodies will adapt to deal with this. As most technology appears to be making our lives easier, or lasier (which will be more critical as I explain my theory), there is no doubt in my mind we will loose alot of our mobility. Since there is a large push towards working at home and automating everything, I think it is potentially possible we may loose the function of our legs and arms and the moving parts of out bodies. Having said that, it will be interesting to see how we will feed ourselves and reproduce. I suspect the theory discussed in the story, "The Time Machine", is not to far from the truth. It could be possible that we evolve into two different types of humans, similar to termites. We will have the workers; those that will grow our food and carry out the pysical tasks, The general populous which will be home bound and in control of mental actvities. Whether this happens in the next 1000 years seems unlikely since evolution takes much longer than this. But in reflection, considering the environmental change the globe is going through, other changes in the human form will need to be taken into consideration. Could it be possible that humanity will not evolve in the next 1000 years, but simply die out and a new species takes its place? This seems more likely since it has happened to many species throughtout the earths history.
1168781
I'm definitely waiting for 'Warp speed', the Transporter and the Phaser...yes, in time we'll have these things.\n\nOne example is our Stealth bomber which is similar to a cloaked Romulan Warship.
889751
Possible, yes.  Likely, no.  We know the orbits of the satellites we put up pretty well.\n\nHowever, there IS a lot of junk orbiting the Earth - pieces of spacecraft, nuts, bolts, etc - and they are orbiting fast.  Being hit by a fast-moving piece of space trash is something they have to keep in mind and try to account for when building shuttles.
1155083
Yes it's so possible. Computers will be smart enough to learn things themselves, and since they're computers they can organize, memorize everything and communicate with each other (computer) at light speed. They can control all other machines with their technical devices. They'll be so powerful.\n\n It will happen, but not anytime soon.
246436
Of course, if we can dream it we can do it. There once was a time when we did not have air travel and now look at us, we have supersonic travel. It will happen one day, I hope I am around for all the cool stuff to happen.
718030
Paraphrased from a research paper I wrote on this topic:\nNo.  They have given us many benefits and new technology, including: Teflon, many medical advances (pacemakers, etc.), remote control toys, microelectronics, infrared cameras, ATMs, satellite TV, and much more.  If for nothing else, space exploration will provide us a competitive edge in the world market, by developing new technologies, and possibly answers to the deepest questions of mankind.
1098286
Well, it was either aliens, or a governemt piece. According to sources, we've been been working on an interstellar drive since just after WWII. Take your choice. Either way, you and I will never get to ride it.
691702
Not me, however there is a good chance humanity will colonize Mars within the next 500 years...
655215
with biotechnology and atomic restructuring yes it will someday be possible.\nThe research in nanobots is coming along faster that expected then they were developed.\nWhat needs to be done now is learn to change the molecule structure of trash to food.\nLike cotton to rice.