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To be able to live forever or at least longer than the average human lifespan. Maybe 2000 years old. To see what the human species will achieve and what we will know. To think that when I was 8 years old and watched Beyond 2000 on TV thinking “wow, the year 2000 is going to be amazing filled with robots and flying cars”. 10 years later when the year 2000 came around, the progression of such things, although had advanced, still didn’t live up to my 8 year old minds expectations. The year 4011, which will be 2000 years from now, is maybe where we should be letting our minds wander too. What will we have achieved in this time, and will it live up to our current expectations. They will if we put our minds to it but only if we overcome our shortcomings.
I agree with some of what has been said and disagree with some of what has been said. People have their own opinions and have the right to their own opinions. But ultimately fact is what is right. Can we really class ourselves as intelligent? Do we even have that right? Yes we can build things and send probes into space and ponder the wonders of the universe, but can that really be passed off as intelligence. Maybe some of the things stated in the Fermi paradox are right, would a truly intelligent species that evolved on a planet going around a distant start, that has developed intergalactic / extragalactic travel really want to stop here and say hi, at this point in our own development. I would honestly say no. We are still the only creatures on this planet that kill each other for belief in a higher power. A higher power that in my opinion does not exist. And no, I’m not afraid to openly state that. Religion is one of the key elements holding back our progress to true intelligence. The amount of money spent on war for a god of some description is ridiculous, money that could be well spent advancing our civilisation. Yes, I’m aware that a lot of it may also be for the black stuff under the ground and using a religious war as the cover, but why not put a bit more money into alternative power resources that doesn’t use fossil fuels reducing our need for fossil fuels. Greed is another one of those key elements holding us back.
We as people are still looking up and thinking, are we alone in the universe. Yes we are alone, but only because we haven’t conquered “space travel” yet or we are just still to uninviting to the passersby to drop down and say “hey, we worked that out awhile ago, here’s how”. Yes, there is life out there in the universe, be it single celled or highly advanced space travelers, but we will never know this as fact until we overcome our own problems here and truly become intelligent.
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