http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7FVjATcqvc

I found this video somewhat interesting and truethfull. I have always said that we could probally have been colonizing the moon by now if we stopped dicking around our time, money and effort on wars and spent it on technology, science, and space.

However, if you look at all the close calls we have had with Nuke Warfare you will see what the hell this guy is talking about. Oh and also our sun isn't going to last forever, meaning we need to leave Earth eventually. In my own opinion. The more time we have preparing for that the better.

Any thoughts on this?

By the time our sun is of no use, or poses a danger to us, we'll be long gone from the scene. We're more likely to pollute ourselves out of existence or die of disease and or war. I can't see us actively colonizing space for at least a few more centuries, as we still have the continental shelf which would be a good testing ground for the sustainability/viability of extra terrestrial colonies.

Yeah most likely, however it's better to be safe then sorry. There are other things that can happen. Also it would be neat to have this happen in atleast our life-time. Lucky next generationers that get to see more then we do. Unless of course we kill our selves off by then. My curiousity just bugs the hell out of me on this subject.

I don't know if the next Nintendo generation will ever get past thinking about their own belly buttons. We are not evolving here we are sliding backwards. We will have to get our social conscience in gear before we throw ourselves in to science to get us there. Sorry to say but the way things are going It is hard to be optimistic about it. Our technology has advance some but us , no. We are barley better than the cave man maybe less as they had an excuse to be the way they were not us.

Most people will always fall short of the mark of genius, but as long as there is a small group of exceptional people we'll be ok and progress. Provided that the Majority doesn't get in their way and that our Societies have good Leadership.

I think this is great!! Time to start building Green Cities from scratch.

Not to mention all the new tech, I use to watch that The Jetsons cartoon about the Future and I have always wanted that machine that got you out of bed, transported you to the bathroom to take a tinkle, gave you a shower, brushed your teeth, etc then moved you to the kitchen to made you breakfast. What a life.

People have always attempted to predict and manipulate the future.
Hitler and Stalin come to mind.
The reality is that even a short period of a century is difficult and futile to predict.
If the citizens of New York in 1900, had envisioned the opulation they have now their concern would have been, where would all the horses come from, or their feed and the problems of dealing with the horse-shit.
Yet within decades such concerns were indeed horseshit....