Richard Corrigan wrote:EarlofLeicester thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and all...It is potentially possible alright that stem research might and no doubt be a player in the holly grail!! cellular regenerative techniques is an interesting thought, there are so many fictional programs that project this capeability thru it's charactures it creates, one is wolfman in ? cant think of it at the moment...any how the imaginations of people great it is...
The TV series
Dark Angel would be a good sci-fi example, I suppose.
Richard Corrigan wrote:Too early in the span, you say!..emmm....a man before his time maybe!! equally a soceity that lives to long is an issue for who? The earth's resorces? Finite..emmm.. I wonder about this word FINITE....do we actually utilize our resources to there best as yet? In your perspective do you think there would be strain, if poulation reached 20billion for the earth? Poor old earth,,she or he or it gets lashed out of it time and time again, but what does it do? adapts to the new surroundings, quickly and keeps nature in check as best possible, will it eventually give up on people's misuse of it's resource's present and UNDISCOVERED...? Only time will tell Earlofeicester...But then we have not really ventured into our Universe yet either? emmmmm.......I wonder more!!
I grew up as a young boy in the Space Age (mid60's) and believed then, and do now, that the population and resource problems of our dear Earth can be relaxed a bit by venturing off world, much like how hundreds of years ago, the frontier of the New World breathed new life to the people of the Old World, finally moving them out of the medieval day and into the Renaissance.
How much can the earth bare? Do we really want to find out? Because to do so probably means exceeding that limit. Even if Mother Terra (or Midgard, if you prefer, well, I do
) can bear a lot, society may not bre so kind. As we increase population but maintain fixed or diminishing resources, satandard and quality of life will diminish. That will encourage less progress and an even swifter decline. People think I'm nuts when I say that society as a whole is in decline, but without a spark somewhere, that's it.
"You think things get accomplished in life because there isn't always time to get them done" complaceny some would say, here already in the truck loads some would say,,and I would also while we are there...as for stagnate as a soceity, your perspective of the future is interesting indeed...would this be based on your experience?
Observation of the US Senate and House of Representatives. And employers. When something was critical, they would address it. When it could wait, it would never get done. Until it became critical, then the finger pointing and all. A sad cycle I have seen repeated too many times. The PTB (powers that be) are not a proactive lot.
The poor old Politicians, it is difficult for these guys to evade a debate, some were along the way somenody brings them into the realm of JUDGEMENT...and to think of them doing nothing for so many 100's of years, is a gastly thought indeed,, a thought thou I might add,,, I know a politician and if she works any harder in her life she will implode and for what?... I dont know...when there is such a huge varience in politicians--peoples performances...but if this is your view,, it's your view and many others no doubt...but I would ask you...what if your view was that politicians were the best thing since sliced bread,, would this infleuncce your whole thought process?
I do not think every politician is bad, but collectively, making democracy work isn't easy. My view would change if politicians collectively were goal focused. Putting a man on the moon in 1960 looked impossible because America's Redstone rockets were blowing up on the launchpad. Ten years later it happened. Because the government focused its energies on that goal. Our government is goal-less, divided by special interests and accomplishes little of importance.
And stuck on one planet with limited resources!!!
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we are of our own limitations based on our beliefs"
There was a time when belief had it that the world was FLAT!
There was a time when belief had it that women were mans slaves!
There was a time when belief had it that planes would never fly!
And so on
Earlof multiply a good feeling by 10 and what will you feel?
Thank you so much for your response Earolf, very interesting?
We are stuck on this planet for political reasons. The technology to get us to Mars has existed for years, and a cost effective (NASA-wise) plan to get us there has been around since 1996. We are stuck here because the PTB keep us stuck here. I believe that a multiplanteary presence for humanity is possible but the PTB do not act in long term vision. Will effective leadership come into office to address the Earth's and hunamity needs? Maybe. Probably not in my lifetime. Of course, if I lived 1000 years...
