EmperorPalpatine89,
Sorry to say but you spouted so much nonsense in your post that it's tough to only look at the reasonable points you made there.
"We have defined the words Peace, Celebrate and Happy, and have defined the words Slaughter, Kill, and Annihilate."
-Okay i get it, jesus (for instance) never preached (or defined) "peace" It was the US, celebrate
-Celebrate - obviously there's only celebrations in the US, the rest of the world never had any reason to celebrate
-Happiness, obviously nobody has ever been happy for having kids or getting married, everyone knows you can only be happy if you're from the US
Slaughter - Sorry, the Us don't hold a candle to Ghenghis Khan or the inquisition
Kill - Pretty much the same as above
Annihilate - Well, we can say the US we're pretty good at annihilating the native americans and stealing their homes and lands, though to say you defined it... well not sure where the US were when say... the Aztec or Incan empires were annihilated...
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AS for the Us being a superpower, people sometimes mix in there being a military superpower and the economic center of the world. For as long as the Us has enough nukes to exterminate all life on earth (no it's not the blast, it's the radiation), the US will be a military superpower. As for economic center, there have been plenty of economic center in history and the US has only been one for less than a century (a third of the time the UK was the center so...)
I don't think that China will take over the US as economic center so soon, but it has high chances of doing so in the next 50 years.
I bet 100-200 years down the Road there wont be country's any more. It will be like 1 Government of the world cause scientists say in the next 50 years Mars will be colonized by humans, then in about another 150 years we will have the ability to viist other starsystems and colonize planets we dont even know of now.
So long as there are rednecks there will either be a USA or a CSA!
Btw, when WW3 occurs (everybody against China and North Korea), China will be wiped out by a all the western nations, removing the 6000 year old nation, and all the commies.
Well, there's still half a dozen (at least) other countries behind the Iron Curtain including the Russkies, so we would've done very little when that happened, except whipe two Major Asian Nations of the map.
Obviously liberal countries with no idea how to keep peace would attack Americans.
Wave those white flags when the russians take over please.
America will eventually lose it's power, but it wont happen now, China is way too overcrowded
War provides exponentially diminishing returns with the development of high-investment infrastructure and civilian globalization. There is a non-negligible probability that there will never be a WWIII. Forget what you've heard about men being violent bastards. Men are greedy bastards.
First of all, there are not nearly enough nukes in existance to exterminate all life on Earth. I don't care what your highschool physics teacher told you. The amount of radioactive material you would need to give everyone a fatal dose is preposterous.
Second of all, the US is a military superpower because of its superior Air Force and Navy. No country will overcome this in the foreseeable future. It takes a profoundly complex and expensive logistic effort to field the number of aircraft carriers that the Americans do.
I doubt many people will be interested in colonizing planets that take multiple lifetimes and unspeakable resources to reach. Not now, not in 150 years.
-Dr. B
Ask yourself: "Has America always been a super power?"
Answer that, and you answer your question.
with less than 120 days left in office, our beloved leader has figured out away to distroy our economy and to crush any future chance of America remaining a super power for more than a generation or two.
The bill is now coming due and we have no way to pay it.
"always" is just plain stupid - there is no such thing as "always". In a few trillion trillion years there will be NOTHING. No life, no planets, no stars.
Anyway, in the short term, within a few thousand years we will have no countries. We will have solar systems, if not a single nation comprising every known human-controlled planet.
Don't forget the Army, which is every bit as important. One thing we learned in some of the wars after WWII was that you can't hold a city with only an air force. We've bombed cities to the stone age, only to find out later the people regrouped and took the city back. You need a presence in the city itself to prevent this. You need an army.
Saddam's army was largely wiped out because his tanks were older and could not compete with our modern tanks - our tanks had double the range and could safely destroy his with almost no resistance. I'm sure the Air Force helped, but the Army played a key role in crippling Saddam's forces.
But yes, militarily, it appears we will be a superpower for some time to come. Economically, on the other hand, we're not doing so well .
As far as visiting other planets - I can see going back to the Moon and to Mars in 150 years, but going to other solar systems will probably be in the multiple thousands of years rather than the hundreds. The resources required to do so are simply way too vast for such a project in a couple generations. The trip itself will likely be over multiple generations.
Nah, this is a situation we created ourselves. People giving out loans were too confident that the market wouldn't slip and gave money to people who couldn't afford a downturn. Well, the market started a downturn and now loans are defaulting all over the place. The president just happens to be an easy target for blame.
Stars have a limited lifespan.
Congratulations, you just killed the entire human race.
Well, if us religious people are wrong and God never comes again, then that's gonna happen one way or another. Eventually, the universe will succumb to thermodynamics and there will be no useful energy left.
But that stuff is so far into the future that frankly it doesn't matter. We have to focus on what's going on right now rather than what's so far ahead in the future.
It will matter one day, the chance to survive sacrificed by people fully aware of the results. Sacrificed for personal gain because those people cared about nothing else than themself.
You count me out of this one. Planned extinction.
You see, i understand the will to evil. The will to evil is like an iron forge. It can only be shaped by a conscience that is the fire. If there was a creator, he obviously came to the same conclusion.
I am glad we experience today first hand what reckless exploitation of our planet is resulting in.
The majority of humanity WILL learn from its failiure or get killed in the process. That is the plan.
Our cities razed by storms, our coastlines drowned in floods, our forests afire our deserts enlarging. When will you learn to take precautions?
I think in the next 150 years a sizeable ammount of research will be concerned about preserving habitable enviroments, wich is in turn exactly what you need for a generation vojage colonization efford. Coincidence? Perhaps. I don't think so. Evolution is at work here. But what is it that is evolving?