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When humanity can colinize planets, and wage space warfae how will the world react, will we form one great nation of the world, divide up into diffrent alliances, or go of on are own in a world wide space race. Will that day be the beggingi of a new age or just another age where countyrs try to out do each other. Basically I am tyring to say is what do you think is going to happen earth and countrys when we reach Galciv2 technology? whenever that will be. 
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on May 01, 2008
Question: is there other life out there (specifically, intelligent tool-using life)? There isn't any data currently available, that I've heard of.Not saying you are, but it would be very niave to think we are the only race living in this universe.


I agree, but there is one question how man trillions and billions(99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999.....) spiecies are there.

But you can be sure that we are not alone!

The universe is infinite, it's just impossible that we are alone.
on May 01, 2008
Humans will have wars with other spicies, because humans only want more and more, humans haven't yet reached the level where they realize that wars are pointless.

P.S I'am sorry if I ofended anyone with this.
on May 01, 2008
No Change - we'll just fight each other for the "new" resources we find ......Politicians will still fight for influence and power, they'll just have a wider selection to dominate .....And we will still be that way until another Race comes along, kicks our Butt, and we might then - just might - develop some common sense and stop that nonsense.


I totally agree with you!
on May 01, 2008
it is never going to happen any way.. The Myians have it right, the world is going to end in 2012.  
on May 01, 2008
As far as energy goes.
Fusion (not splicing) at room temperatures is becoming more and more feasible.
Fusion not giving any reactive waste products as opposed to nuclear waste, gives for a whole lotta energy.

To read about the part where they come close to fusion power @ room temperature, check here.
So let's say in about 50-100 years this is already implementable. That leaves travel.

Travel option:
Theoretical faster-than-light travel in Einsteinian space --> Link.

I'm sure that still leaves a whole lot of other things that need to be considered, but as a stepping stone, these real life examples can possibly add some realism to this thread.

on-topic, as far as politics go. Man kind will always hunger for power and possession. If it's not for resources, then it'll simply be to claim territory as much as possible where "Faction#" will "preach" their way-of-life (superior to others).
Way-of-life can also pertain to religion. Different beliefs and religion equals war.

An alien race, friendly or hostile, may yet be the best thing to ever happen to the human race.

Talking about other life... that question is almost easy
Watch this and this.
I think those say enough

GreetZ
on May 01, 2008
Mankind is destined for two things: self-anniliation or unification. I beleive if we are to unify we must dissolve nations entirely. To create you must destroy. That or we all die in a horrible nuclear war. As for other life, you have to know that for life to take place you need ideal conditions. Most scientists beleive that about 1% of the planets in the galaxy are suited for life and that doesn't include whatever species that might actually be intelligent life.
on May 01, 2008
I agree with your unification idea USSRman45. If we want to live to see "potent" sci-fi space travel and world colonization, we are going to have to recognize ourselves as Terrans not Americans or Germans or Russians or Iraqis etc.(I think you get my point)we are all just humans!   
on May 01, 2008
Eventually, mankind will encounter an alien race somwhere that is just belligerent as hell. At that point, if humanity doesnt unify, we will just all die! There is no way the human race could adequately defend itself while fighting itself, so lets all hope we decide to unify when the time comes.
on May 01, 2008
The development of anti-matter ought to be fairly interest since theoretically it could be used either as fuel or as planet-game-over weaponry.

Personally, I believe that humanity will be somewhat similar to the aliens in Independence Day in that once we have the ability, we will hop from planet to planet exhausting its resources on the way. (except I don't think we would really annihilate an intelligent alien species just because they are in our way)
on May 01, 2008
Eventually some poor alien race will have the misfortune of encountering us and we, with our infinite moral wisdom will find them too deviant and barbaric for our liking and will be forced to liberate them from the tyranny of their hive-caste overlords and spread the blessings of democracy and "human" rights. Rinse and repeat until overextended and sapped by planetary rebellions. Unlock achievement by spreading our culture to over 75% of the galaxy.
A Tale of Two Planets
Our collective broadcasts from the past century have been received by a far off alien civilization, similar to ours in most respects. Reports of a warlike, cruel and intolerant race with a most dreadful taste in music is received by their respective governments, which immediately set aside all differences and form a unified world government to prevent what is know as World Wars and Holocaust from occurring on their world. They later intercept transmissions revealing a disturbing development know as an arms-race where two opposing groups devote every effort in developing world-ending weaponry. The aliens pray that such violent a race destroy itself swiftly, so to spare them of the cruelties of man. To safeguard their civilization, they draw all the resources of their world to develop the capacity for a pre-emptive strike. Their unity and fear for what might happen should they fail yield great results. Then one day, they intercept gangsta rap. In their shock and disgust for the depths of depravity these earthlings have fallen to, they come to the conclusion that man must be destroyed, for if given a chance man would surely bust a cap in their ass.
The next day our sun goes supernovae.
Epilogue
Upon calmer reflection of their actions, the aliens realize how shockingly human their actions were. Disgusted by the humanity of their behaviour, they forswear all pre-emptive annihilation and focus instead on spreading peace and tolerance to primitive races throughout the galaxy. We humans thus earn the distinction of causing the developments resulting in galactic peace. Grateful generations of aliens would say "they died for a peace and future they would not understand, much less enjoy, and we are fortunate for that."
on May 01, 2008
Then one day, they intercept gangsta rap. In their shock and disgust for the depths of depravity these earthlings have fallen to, they come to the conclusion that man must be destroyed, for if given a chance man would surely bust a cap in their ass.


Couldn't agree more.
on May 01, 2008
You're joking, right? Please tell me your not that naive. Lets start with the various Crusades, Jihads, purges, and other stupidity "in the name of God!" Then lets move on to the fact that its easier to take the infrastructure and wealth from someone else than to develop it yourself. Then lets move on to genuine political issues, and finally the fact that the resources available in the galaxy are finite -- eventually there will be "pressure for resources" again.


The Crusades and Jihads, like every other war/conflict was never really about religion, but struggles for power and resources. Religion and political ideologies are only convenient pretexts to war.

If we somehow manage to solve the problem of limited resources, big scale conflicts will greatly diminish. And, the good thing is that we are slowly getting there. Fusion technology is getting closer to be realised, bioengineering (our search for cures for diseases and ageing) is constantly developing. Then we have the not so unrealistic concepts of nanotechnology and quantum computers that, in theory could solve many of our problems.

But of course there will always be conflicts. Humans are far to gullible not to get lured by little midgets with delusions of grandeur. And it will always be easier to blame the people on the other side of the fence for your own problems.
But somehow i just can't stop being an optimist.

on May 01, 2008
it is never going to happen any way.. The Myians have it right, the world is going to end in 2012.  


Seeing that the Myans were wrong about every other prophecy they had and everytime something went wrong all they just did was increase the number of human sacrifices I don't put much stock in their end of the world scenario.

HOWEVER . . .

December 2012 would be around the end of Hillary's first term of office so yeah it would be the end of days.
on May 01, 2008
Some of you have touched upon this already but unless we encounter a hostile alien race our hatred of our neighbors(especially the ones that don't return that hammer you loaned them for like 3 months now) will just spread across explore space. West vs East, North vs South, or Religon vs Religion will still be at each other's throats just to control the new resources.

The game Starlancer demonstrates this well.
on May 01, 2008
it is never going to happen any way.. The Myians have it right, the world is going to end in 2012.  Seeing that the Myans were wrong about every other prophecy they had and everytime something went wrong all they just did was increase the number of human sacrifices I don't put much stock in their end of the world scenario.HOWEVER . . .December 2012 would be around the end of Hillary's first term of office so yeah it would be the end of days.


rotfl

oh i needed that.. thank you
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