Futuretalk: Future of planet Earth?
By Ptrikha_2
@ptrikha_2 (45486)
India
July 8, 2017 2:06am CST
Sometimes when I see the events related to politics, Environment and societies as a whole, I wonder what holds for the planet Earth''s future.
Will the mankind progress enough to build a colony on Mars of space and altogether leave this planet?
Or will majority due here on a decaying planet and a few wealthy ones escape to space colonies?
Or will the mankind gets the house in order and the planet becomes much better for living again without any wars or mayhem?
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
8 Jul 17
@LadyDuck and those who face the devastation - well it will be very very terrible for them.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
8 Jul 17
Mankind always survives, it happened before and will happen in future.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
8 Jul 17
Some of the present things - climate change, increasing terror attacks and decaying social moral values are a grave threat.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
20 Jul 17
I think humanity will always try to get around each and every problem that comes my friend.
Whether we succeed is yet to be seen.
It may be that we do indeed need to go to space.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
21 Jul 17
Yes I think humans will be trying to make colonies in space; although that comes at a cost
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
9 Jul 17
If you look at the things that man has found buried in the earth (that are not provably fake) but make us ponder and wonder how they occurred, you may be surprised at the future that could be conceived from them...
Go read some of these little articles. I am not saying these are real, because everything COULD be faked if people wanted to fake them, but just suppose these aren't faked.
There could be a couple (or more) of possible explanations for them that I can think of offhand... Possibly there have been earlier civilizations who were as advanced or more advanced than our own before us. (In this scenario, we may be wiped out just as earlier civilizations were.)
Possibly in our future, we invent time travel and these were objects lost by travelers to our past. (In this scenario, we continue to advance until we master time.)
There are others, right?
There are many remarkable ancient artifacts that could re-write history as we know it. These artifacts are highly controversial.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
10 Jul 17
@DaddyEvil Well one might say that I am bragging, but ancient Indian texts like Ramayana, Mahabharatha, even Vedas and others talk about things that Europeans invented or discovered at very late stages.
"Pushpak Viman" (Pushpak Plane) that could make people fly to different places is mentioned in it.
There are some indirect references to time travel.
Weapons mentioned have effects similar to chemical or nuclear weapons.
Even there were advanced forms of medicine.
And we can't say that Aliens have not been visiting us. UFOs have been dismissed scientifically but grey areas still remain.
Possibilities are endless, but still we need to take care of our planet, if not for us, why not for the generations to come.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
10 Jul 17
@DaddyEvil Yes and we need to change our ways fast, and for this, we must forget that we are citizens of country A, or B or C or D and first of all think of ourselves as citizens of a single world and think of how to make this planet better and more livable.
@the_thinker (340)
• India
8 Jul 17
Yes, Earth is losing its glory.
Humans already know this.
Therefore, they are searching life on other planets.
They plan to shift to other planets (Mars / Mercury / Jupiter) - live there.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
8 Jul 17
I believe perhaps by 2100, a basic living arrangement would have been made on the Planet Mars.
@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
10 Jul 17
@the_thinker Realistically, while we have made many strides, conditions on planets beyond Mars like Jupiter present even more challenges. Some like Jupiter have many toxic gases, some like Neptune are too cold and frozen.
So even exploring minerals beneath soil can be a challenge, unless we have some breakthrough technology.
One hope can come if we are able to get some "Friendly Alien" contact in next few years.
Or figure out ways to get spaceships to travel even at a quarter of speed of light.
@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
16 Jul 17
@the_thinker May be it is the writer's mind- Mars will need a lot of work to make even a habitable space station, and one can only imagine how tough will it become Planet Jupiter onwards!
But for the time being, it is earth that needs our attention and betterment.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
8 Jul 17
Man is very selfish and their greed will cause major problems in the future.
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@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
9 Jul 17
@garymarsh6 it's already creating a lot of problems.
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@gautaam (159)
• Mumbai, India
8 Jul 17
I had written similar thoughts long time back. The most intelligent species on planet is most vulnerable. It will be human intelligence that will see a fall of humankind in a way. Two reasons for it, we have been always fighting all through out history even if we have empathy, intelligence and know-how of survival. Secondly, however powerful or evolved we are, we still cannot conquer nature and cycle of evolution.
@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
8 Jul 17
@gautaam let us wait and watch but somehow personally I am not very optimistic.
@ptrikha_2 (45486)
• India
16 Jul 17
@JudyEv and things are tougher for our kids, and I do not know how bad will it be for the generation after them!
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