star trex v real life

farmer giles · Post by **farmer giles** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:27 am

apart from a lot of the inventions or techno gadgets

mobile phone v the old communicators etc

i'm amazed at how right old gene roddenberry got things about how we as a species have grown

most of us now dont hate some one because of the colour of their skin

or because of which side of the bat they bowl at if you know what i mean :-3

but how long before the rest of his predictions come true ???

in the next generation series all poverty on earth is abolished

and the need for money and materialistic possessions are gone

how long before we as a species stop spending $100 000 on a care whilst hundreds die without medicine or food in other countries

the kids (not mine as i don't have it anyway) spend £100 on a pair of jeans or trainers/sneakers

it just seems so obscene when their are other children dying from hunger

when or if do you think we will grow a conscience :-3:-3

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:08 am

I agree with you, there is an imbalance in the world that still needs to be fixed, but I think and hope we are moving in the right direction.

For me a transport beam would be the next great invention, I could just beam myself to work, or home to see my family any time I wanted. It would be great.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:27 am

Ive got some things I'm working on in the lab that will revolutionize and catapult the world into a new age farmer jimbo. All I can say right now is that it involves intelligent brussels sprouts.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:56 am

how long before we as a species stop spending $100 000 on a care whilst hundreds die without medicine or food in other countries

the kids (not mine as i don't have it anyway) spend £100 on a pair of jeans or trainers/sneakers

it just seems so obscene when their are other children dying from hunger

when or if do you think we will grow a conscience

I wouldn't hold your breath...

I seem to recall, dimly, as from a vast distance, that the Star Trek timeline had a Great Collapse or something, and that the Star Trek human society grew out of the ruins of that collapse.

In our universe and time, what we need most desperately is clean cheap unlimited power. Best chance for that is fusion power, but fusion power is at least 25 years away and we've some serious problems to sort out before then.

What clean cheap unlimited power gives us, either directly or through subsequent technologies, is an end to pollution, the ability to grow almost unlimited amounts of food - basically, an end to most of the problems we now face. We would be able to look seriously at the long-term colonisation of local space - the Moon, huge Space Stations, Mars, all would be real possibilities.

Ok, it's not humanity growing a conscience, but it's a big step towards a better world where that conscience might have a better chance of developing: take away the pressures of basic survival and people are generally more pleasant to eachother.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:04 am

chuckle. However, if you removed the pressure of survival, how many of us would just sit on our fat arses watching tv...?