Future humans?

[Chris45]

Mate that is utter bull crap. No one is going to have a surgical RFID implanted for national security. I can`t understand why people sensationalise things. Gee, and the last sentence sums it up. Nutter.

You obviously didn't see it. Ignorance is bliss. Fool.

 

[kgee]

viva la libertienes

my bad ...this question has been posed 100 times....just read a couple of sci fi books David Brin always sat with me for his optimisim..but he did live in silicone valley

 

[gooner]

Gooner, please tell me this post is tongue in cheek?

The bit about now getting fortnightly payments instead of a lump sum payment is true. But it is quite likely that the uses to which the money was put were slightly exaggerated (well, perhaps very given I do not own a plasma TV, surround sound system or Sony Playstation). Any my wife would not be impressed were she to find out I had been telling people she plays the pokies. And I suspect my youngest daughter would be surprised to find out that her name is really Taleeshaa.

Was a very wind afternoon in Sydney yesterday - obviously had too much time on my hands

 

[drsmith]

Observation shows us the humanly visible universe has a sporadic arrangement of stellar bodies. Similar, but nothing exactly the same. To have the perfect combination of planet mass distanced proportionately from a light and heat source is highly unlikely if not an impossibility. If we look at how this planet has evolved to be life supporting it appears that an incredible amount of perfect scenarios have unfolded. A little bit too perfect I suspect.

Yes, similar in a cosmic sense could well mean a body that consists of various unremarkable ores (SPOC's description of Regular-1 from Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan) with some carbon dioxide and water frozen as ices at something near the right distance from a stable star.

Mars might be as good as it gets.

 

[Julia]

The bit about now getting fortnightly payments instead of a lump sum payment is true. But it is quite likely that the uses to which the money was put were slightly exaggerated (well, perhaps very given I do not own a plasma TV, surround sound system or Sony Playstation). Any my wife would not be impressed were she to find out I had been telling people she plays the pokies. And I suspect my youngest daughter would be surprised to find out that her name is really Taleeshaa.

Was a very wind afternoon in Sydney yesterday - obviously had too much time on my hands

Gooner, I am much relieved that my original assessment of your priorities has not been shattered.

 

[spooly74]

To have the perfect combination of planet mass distanced proportionately from a light and heat source is highly unlikely if not an impossibility. If we look at how this planet has evolved to be life supporting it appears that an incredible amount of perfect scenarios have unfolded. A little bit too perfect I suspect.

This combination of light/heat from a stellar mass with regards to Earth is far from perfect.
The 'goldilocks' zone the Earth orbits with respect to the Sun, is not perfect. Earth could move 15% closer or further away and the planet would still be habitable, perhaps challenging, but habitable none the less.

Water is abundant in the universe. I don't see anything unique or perfect about Earth or our Solar system.

 

[Mr J]

And we also don't need a habitable climate to settle another world, just the construction and supply of structures that are suitable for hostile environment - something we already have on and around Earth. Supplies can be shipped in, recyled, or extracted.

 

[Wysiwyg]

And we also don't need a habitable climate to settle another world, just the construction and supply of structures that are suitable for hostile environment - something we already have on and around Earth. Supplies can be shipped in, recyled, or extracted.

My Jove, one would miss a walk in the park or swim at a beach.
Don`t tell me , they could be artificially created. I can see the headlines now. Man conquers Universe.

 

[Wysiwyg]

This combination of light/heat from a stellar mass with regards to Earth is far from perfect.
The 'goldilocks' zone the Earth orbits with respect to the Sun, is not perfect. Earth could move 15% closer or further away and the planet would still be habitable, perhaps challenging, but habitable none the less.

Water is abundant in the universe. I don't see anything unique or perfect about Earth or our Solar system.

Hey hey. I believe perfect conditions would not be so if they became "challenging". Contradictory but I understand your point. Simply moving the moon closer or further away would make life "challenging". All adaptable as evolution has proven but comparatively (to now) quite different.

 

[Mr J]

My Jove, one would miss a walk in the park or swim at a beach.

It really would be a shame to lose this world.

 

[Tysonboss1]

It really would be a shame to lose this world.

yeah, Maybe we should treat it better

 

[Wysiwyg]

Yes, similar in a cosmic sense could well mean a body that consists of various unremarkable ores (SPOC's description of Regular-1 from Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan) with some carbon dioxide and water frozen as ices at something near the right distance from a stable star.

Mars might be as good as it gets.

These discussions are good for letting us escape the petty foibles of general everyday human life.
The fears predominantly imagined, the anger over someone doing us wrong, all becomes strangely insignificant when we realise our individual experience on this planet is located in a soft, grey coloured organ somewhere between our ears.

 

[drsmith]

What about our limited water supply?

This too is a question of energy.