We were pioneers in our field (HINT: in the 20th century-we are now in the 21st century)....?
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Astronauts - Glenn, Schirra, and Carpenter. The other dead are, Grissom, Cooper, Slayton and Shephard.
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Yes, If you look at how far we have advanced technology wise it's unbelievable and the Knowledge we have acquired yet after all this let's be honest the way we treat each other has barely moved a step forward since the day of the caveman.I don't think as species over all any of us have the right to say we are "civilised"
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Yes, modern day inventions are fascinating. Imagine the stuff that companies have developed but have not shown us. Just the other day, I was reading about quantum teleportation and about creating force fields with plasma. It is amazing how far we have come and where our imagination can take us.
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yeah i believe it\n\nlook back at your history books of technology, you'll see a big jump from old large vacuum tubes to microcircuits and microchips.. we couldnt have discovered it that quickly. a UFO probably brought us the technology we're using today
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I'll stick with today vs. 100 years ago.  \n\nThe health and safety differences are huge, and the abilities modern technologies give us make our number possible choices in life MUCH bigger.\n\nI would love to visit the past, but I live here.
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We are, Honey!! Just look at me!!  Seriously, if you look at pictures of people from back in the 30's and compare them with people of today, I think they ARE getting prettier. Of course there are exceptions. There were SOME beautiful people then and there's some DAWGS now, but, to answer your question, I think they are (getting prettier)and it will most likely progress.
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i was reading a discover mag..i think it's the june issue this year and the dude said that we are pretty much stagnant on more discovery 'cause we humans just don't have the technology to look farther...our system is at an end of looking..so no one will be looking 'farther' until someone comes up with something more powerful.
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I can't tell you exactly how long we've been in existence, no one can. But to answer your second query with the way things are going i think we have two more generations of life left in us before total extinction due to pollution, religous wars or anarchy. Sorry, have a nice day.
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SCIENCE MOVES US FORWARD.\nSUPERSTITIONS HOLD BACK THRU IGNORANCE.
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An invention: Cellborg ( http://www.livescience.com/technology/051027_cellborg_sensor.html ) massive potential to become useful in our lifetimes\n\nA discovery: new blackhole ( http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050509_blackhole_birth.html ) very little potential to become useful in our lifetimes, but oh so cool\n\nOffbeat: monkeys have accents ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051129/od_afp/japananimalsoffbeat ) it has to do with monkeys and I personally find study language fascinating
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:) henry ford invent it in the 1900s
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I'm sorry, you'll never get a straight or a correct answer no matter what.\n\n\n"Huh? Why?!!"\n\nWell, let me put it in simple terms. We are predicting the future on current technology, either far overestimating where we'd be or quite the contrary.\n\nBack in the 60's, there were books out there and sci-fi films of what human civilization would have reached by the year 2000. No joke, they simply believed we'd be colonizing the moon by then, driving around hovercrafts and spaceships going in and out of earth like cars. As you can tell we are far far far from that.\n\nWhat if in the next 5 years we discovered something that would boost technology research rate by tenfold? That would surely mess up our calculations if I gave you one now.\n\nWhat if a massive war broke out in 15 years time between say China and the US? One that would devastate the world and make places inhabitable for the next millenia, setting things back to the stone age on certain parts of the world?\n\n\nI think you get the picture now =]
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This is a great website URL and will contain all the information you are looking for.\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML
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All it means is that we don't know everything. We've learned quite a bit in the short time since we developed written language and the scientific method, and the rate of learning is accelerating. We'll learn more in the next 10 years than we've learned in the last 100. We'll probably understand the nature of dark matter in the next 10-20 years, and I would bet long odds that it won't require any supernatural explanation.
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I would love to go back to the start of the last century. Everything we take for granted today was just at the beginning and very exciting, i.e. cars, planes, electricity, machines.
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What we would call modern medicine pretty much all developed during the past century.
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what do you mean pioneers?