2063

Five - seveN · **Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:01 am**

Nah I think it'd be possible if the world wasn't divided in countries and the governments would put all their warfare budgets into research. But humans are just far too dump and greedy to do such a thing. If the world leaders would've done this 200 years ago, we would've colonized the Alpha/Proxima Centauri system by now... As far as that's possible of course

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I think I'm going to cry about this. Seriously.

gul Lemek III. · **Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:08 pm**

Lol, I think Five - Seven is perfectly correct. We would have been absurdly advance by now! Damn the governments

. And yes, ST universe had a nuke war.

1/1 · **Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:24 pm**

webtaz99 · **Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:41 pm**

A couple of points:

Most of "our" technological advancements ultimately stem from military development. The rest stem from from greed alone.

Once they squeeze this planet dry, they'll have to go into space, and they'll have to take us with them.

starnova · **Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:23 pm**

how long will that be

Birdy · Socialist Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 13502 Location: Here.

I think i'm dead when the human race (finally) can travel at warp speed.
Shame.

starnova · **Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:28 am**

too bad we cant live untill that moment

Waverider9.9 · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 72

WW3? Where Nuclear weapons accounted for over 300 million casualties...

So what do we think? 2063, Data refered to it being approx 9? years after WW3.

Humans fighting over the last remaining supplies of fossil fuels perhaps?

Five - seveN · **Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:35 am**

That could very well be 'true'...

lionhead · **Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:02 pm**

a little Mad Max or Fallout.

starnova · **Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:38 pm**

this is off topic but
fallout is a ok game

lionhead · **Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:06 am**

Fallout is the Best game ever (or maybe Fallout 2).

starnova · **Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:01 am**

i haven't tried fallout 2

Otter · **Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:02 pm**

Being a Trekker I would love to beleave that mankind will succeed in creating faster than light propulsion within the next 50 years, indeed perhaps humans maywell have the ability by then but compaired to the cost of today space missions I beleave we could never afford the to do it.

lionhead · **Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:13 am**

starnova · **Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:01 am**

Leo Wyatt · **Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:52 pm**

Never know what the future holds so we could get warp speed.

starnova · **Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:55 pm**

ya that would be so cool

~Voyager Fan~ · **Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:48 pm**

may be not but it is still possible

One_Drone · **Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:13 am**

I doubt it, we have to solve our own problems before we take it beyond the stars, and with the problems in the middle east etc, I seriously doubt it. So I don't think it has much to do with technology, it has to do with how we treat eachother first, as if we can't respect other cultures on our own world, how can we even do that with alien species???

lionhead · **Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:24 am**

On technology base, i don't think the Iraqi war is going to slow anything down.

Remember: In star trek Warp drive was invented after World war III, withm ost goverenments unstable and most mayor cities destroyed.

Probably without the war Warp drive would have never been invented, and no way would we have gotten in contact with the Vulcans.

war is neccessary and no war is going to slow us down.

We are like cochroaches, you can't exterminate us.

iconoclast · **Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:19 am**

Earth is a capitalist society, at best; it favours accumulating wealth, not knowledge; our scientific projects are well underfunded, even today. The projects that DO get major funding tend to be in bed with "Evangelical Theory"*. For example, there is a major "research" project into human spiritual auras, in the united states. They use a measuring device, into which one inserts one's finger; it attempts to measure electrostatic activity across a piece of er...glass I think.

While we are ruled by avaricious men who can be summed up with the following three characteristics, we shall not be progressing any time soon. "Trust me, Data"

The characteristics are: greed, power-grabbing-complex(*2), and hate.

* A touch of light humour; don't take it personally.

(*2) It is commonly accepeted that all humans attempt to gain power at some level or in some respect.

Voyager2004 · **Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:55 pm**

But, as you must recall...Zefram Cochrane was the ONE man who invented the Warp Drive. Not a team of scientists. Now, obviously, he had to have help and stuff, but it's not like it was a government project that created the drive.

~Voyager Fan~ · **Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:52 pm**

Yup but we can have warp drive without having a nuclear war,......................