by Arramon » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:29 pm
Just over a few low-lying hills outside of where I live there are plains and plains of open land... fields... trees... rivers. With hardly a whisper of human habitats. Seems there are plenty of places left to live without being crammed together, if where you want to live isn't within some flood, fire or earthquake prone area.
To live on another world: our imagination just keeps getting the better of us. Its not satisfying enough to know that we have a PERFECT planet for us to live the remaining years of our existence (half-century, many centuries, millenia!). But if this IS the only place, how could the many many future generations survive if they stay? The Earth is perfect in its creation, yet limited in its resources we devour. A cataclysm could shake the world, rearrange techtonic plates, destroy green, human and animal life alike, and the survivors would have next to nothing to consume to survive.
But then, this is all we've known. For centuries, humans have only breathed the air of this world (or from oxygen canisters while in orbit or circling the moon). But if we could someday find a means to start the cycle of life on a new world, there could be much hope for generations of humans 1000 years from now.
And with humans taking such large strides when it comes to technology and knowledge, than can all be washed away (or flooded, or covered in ash, or frozen), so that all of what was learned would be lost, and the survivors would need to start once more in the beginning steps of trying to understand and overcome. Our technology of today wasn't the first. And the engineering capabilities of our ancient past is staggering. Only a mere 2000-3000 years later, we finally have electricity and the means to use it. We know what the stars are, we can pick out an asteroid and know that its not a comet. We can see the faintest blobs in celestial images and realize they are remnants of first-born galaxies.
If the learning curve was continued without interruption for the last 3000 years, man would be more advanced than we could ever imagine today. But, for some reason, the knowledge gained over centuries and centuries either fade from planetary disasters or are kept hidden by the powers that be, creating a continual relearning process that makes the accomplishments of those before us harder to build upon.
I'm just hoping that there isn't a time soon that our own present-day accomplishments will be wiped out, and man of tomorrow must relearn what was created within just the last 500 years all over again.
At the rate technology is advancing now, in 100 years, our planet may not even look the same. Or it may stay the same, and we'll all be wondering why the same resources, roads, medicines, credit and entertainment agencies (etc etc) are still being used.
We need to go from horse and carriage, to car, to flying machine... or submersible. =b
But by accepting the same old story from our leaders, about how terrible things are going, and why its so hard to help the billions in need when its easier to just make billions of dollars and become rich, our entire population of earth as a whole and community of voices will never move beyond what we're told to a point where we tell whats to be done.
Just over a few low-lying hills outside of where I live there are plains and plains of open land... fields... trees... rivers. With hardly a whisper of human habitats. Seems there are plenty of places left to live without being crammed together, if where you want to live isn't within some flood, fire or earthquake prone area.
To live on another world: our imagination just keeps getting the better of us. Its not satisfying enough to know that we have a PERFECT planet for us to live the remaining years of our existence (half-century, many centuries, millenia!). But if this IS the only place, how could the many many future generations survive if they stay? The Earth is perfect in its creation, yet limited in its resources we devour. A cataclysm could shake the world, rearrange techtonic plates, destroy green, human and animal life alike, and the survivors would have next to nothing to consume to survive.
But then, this is all we've known. For centuries, humans have only breathed the air of this world (or from oxygen canisters while in orbit or circling the moon). But if we could someday find a means to start the cycle of life on a new world, there could be much hope for generations of humans 1000 years from now.
And with humans taking such large strides when it comes to technology and knowledge, than can all be washed away (or flooded, or covered in ash, or frozen), so that all of what was learned would be lost, and the survivors would need to start once more in the beginning steps of trying to understand and overcome. Our technology of today wasn't the first. And the engineering capabilities of our ancient past is staggering. Only a mere 2000-3000 years later, we finally have electricity and the means to use it. We know what the stars are, we can pick out an asteroid and know that its not a comet. We can see the faintest blobs in celestial images and realize they are remnants of first-born galaxies.
If the learning curve was continued without interruption for the last 3000 years, man would be more advanced than we could ever imagine today. But, for some reason, the knowledge gained over centuries and centuries either fade from planetary disasters or are kept hidden by the powers that be, creating a continual relearning process that makes the accomplishments of those before us harder to build upon.
I'm just hoping that there isn't a time soon that our own present-day accomplishments will be wiped out, and man of tomorrow must relearn what was created within just the last 500 years all over again.
At the rate technology is advancing now, in 100 years, our planet may not even look the same. Or it may stay the same, and we'll all be wondering why the same resources, roads, medicines, credit and entertainment agencies (etc etc) are still being used.
We need to go from horse and carriage, to car, to flying machine... or submersible. =b
But by accepting the same old story from our leaders, about how terrible things are going, and why its so hard to help the billions in need when its easier to just make billions of dollars and become rich, our entire population of earth as a whole and community of voices will never move beyond what we're told to a point where we tell whats to be done.