ok people are saying in the 2000 were suppose to live like the jetsons why aren't we?
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But we are! It's just that not all Jetsons predictions came out to be true, while, on the other hand, not all things that actually happened have been predicted by the Jetsons.\nWe don't have flying cars, but we have the Internet. Nobody in the 60's had enough vision to predict that, so we are *far ahead* the Jetsons from that viewpoint.\nSimilarly: we don't spend holidays on the Moon, but we have decoded the human genome.\nWe don't use laser guns, but we can watch TV on 3G mobile phones.\nAnd, we don't wear multicolored super-hero suits because we prefer Giorgio Armani.
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i'm not saying there is no aliens and i'm still not saying they are aliens but if there are aliens with techs more advance than that of ours, then they would be coming here for visits time to time. If they are at the same techs with us then we would be able to pick up their signals long time if they was there. so my guess is it's a mystery or maybe they are still in their stone age but if that was the case then we would be picking up there signals from since long time.
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We, meaning you? Or "We" meaning humans?\n\nUnfortunately, you'll be dead by the time we establish a human presence.  Humans can travel to Mars, but "living" there can mean many things: If you define "living" there as simply showing up and staying for a day, then 2030 is a good estimate.  "Living" meaning "Colonizing" is well into the NEXT century!
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i do because there are many galaxies are there. but you just wait because in the next 20 years we'll  be able to detect alien life forms other than our planet because if there are those aliens are trying to contact with us by waves (like we use on our planets for example, radio waves.) there is evidence that life used to exist on mars. not like life like us (like mircoscopic things). there are many stories that aliens have come to visit our planet. can be true because as they are as they are described in the movies all these phonomenons are happening buts its not possible for us yet to go visit another galaxy. not eveough human years. but in the next upcoming years we'l have ships that will be able to jump into time. as we are doing right now for example, when a space shuttle stays in orbit for atleast a year, they jump into time by 3.8 seconds. its hard to believe but its true . in star trek when they jump into time there using those worm holes. they exist but there so damn small that we have to enlarge them. there smaller than an atom. as phsyics desribres its not possible to go as fast as the speed of light it'll be possible in the next upcoming years. (i dont no when though) but if we go any faaster than the speed of light we'll be crushed by the gravity so that is why we'll be using worm holes and that is one way that we'll be able to visit other galaxies. i hope i stay alive doing that time lol
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You are all crazy because 10 years ago I left my home and now when I returned back, the location of my house was the same and the door of my house was on west side as it was a decade ago. The earth is not moving as I stated above now here we come through those reasons that this is the SUN which is moving all the day and night such crazy people like you all.
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I'll back you up.  The world is, like, *so* 50 years ago.  All the cool cats and hip chicks these days are swinging with the Jovian planets.  Only squares with, like, tight highwater pants and cardigans care about this little podunk planet anymore.
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There would be no excuse.  Mankind has been the same at the root, the only things that have changed are technology, and morals and values.  The basics are all there.  Deep down we have been the same: the want for survival, the want for territory of our own, the want to procreate, the want to ensure our offspring a future.  This has been going on since humans could walk upright.
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If there is life on other planets it will find us before we find them.We are in the stone age when it comes to transportation on the planet. Only 2% of the gas you put in your car is used to propel you.When it comes to space travel we are even more barbaric.
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Its a case of get them before they get you isn't it? don't you think? What I mean is any race that has the technical superiority to get to us first would without any doubt be far more advanced so we would probably become extincted or con corded. Any beings that would travel 100s of 1000s of light years to our little planet would want to own it and we wont be able to do a thing about it.
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They should be but they are not.  Their view of life is not particle.  They make it appear glamorous but living simple is the best.
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Research suggests that within the next century not only will we completely understand the human brain but computer processing power will far exceed it. Therefore we should not only be able to replicate the brain but should be able to create a far superior machine or human version 2. Depending on how we as humans merge with this new technology will determine whether we are part of this superior race or seen in the future as a lesser being. Either way endless and exciting possibilities are around the corner I don't think we will be waiting 1000's or even 100's of years.
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Consider human technology we have today compared to the technology of 300 years ago.  To a person back then, who did not have electricity, think how advanced we would seem to him.  Our technology would seem unbelievably far advanced.  Now consider an alien species having similar intelligence as humans.  If they are 300 years or more advanced than us, their technology will seem unbelievably advanced to us.  Because species evolve over hundreds of thousands of years, an alien species will likely be far more than 300 years ahead of us, so their technology will be unimaginably more advanced.  (Of course, we would be more advanced than other alien species, but those species won't be able to come here to visit us.)\n\nHowever, any alien species would be very, very, very far away from us, so it is extremely unlikely any could visit here.  It would be an enormous expense of resources, so the motivation for them to come here and spy on us secretly is not enough to justify the resources.
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When I was a child in the 50's I think we relied on our parents more for entertainment etc as we didn't have all the after school activities etc that there are today.Parents were definately the head of the household whereas today life seems to revolve around the children.There also seems to be more freedom to access the world via affordable travel so that families today are very well travelled.The one thing that has not changed is the way we all love our own families even though lots of things are different today than they were then.
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I think there have always been shallow, materialistic people.  However, with more toys and gadgets to covet with each passing day, they "need" more things all the time and appear to be more shallow.  That said, I can't imagine a more shallow, self-conscious decade than the '80's.  Hmmm...a Republican, saber-rattling president in the White House...coincidence?  I think not.
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I quite disagree with Darrius. The law of accelerating returns and Moore's law make it inevitable that by no later than 2040 we will have advanced so far technologically that we will be able to do all that they do in the Matrix movies and more. We won't need  a huge spike driven into a hole in the back of our heads though. (Ever hear of wireless networks?)\n\nWithin a decade or two we will be able to supplement our brains with implants allowing us to parallel process (multi-task), enjoy instant and total memory recall, and communicate via the then ubiquitous, wireless Internet with other people or computers including being able to download information. \n\nThis is just scratching the surface. Check out my source links and hang on, we're all about to go on one heck of a ride.
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I've been wondering the same thing. My best answer is that people like to live in the moment and not think about the future. Also, it appears to me that the people that do this like to be "different" and that is another reason they do it. Oh well, at least it's not my ear!
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HMmmm.... The next phase of our evolution is sort of being skinny, pale, nerdy looking beings with larger heads and squinted eyes.  Only because we have gotten so lazy in our ways, that we have let our lives be consumed by computers, machinery and other objects doing everything for us that we've forgotten how to work for something that we want.  Look at the children of today and look at pictures of our grandparents, you'll see the difference in the shape of the bodies, heads and limbs.  As of, 2012, oh that year will come to the earth, but not as we know it.  The way things are going, it was foretold by a few seer's that a great cataclism will hit the earth during either the first part of 2012 or near the end of the year.  check out Nostradomis or Edgar Casey.