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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts 
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This one is just for fun:
What "outrageous" science fiction concept 1) do you think may possibly happen one day, and 2) would you like to see happen one day (even if it's unlikely)? Here are a few to get started: - Alternate/parallel universes - Space aliens - Mythological creatures (bigfoot, Lock Ness monster, mermaids) - Time travel - Immortality (extended lifespan, "Fountain of Youth", cryogenics) |
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Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3661 Posts
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1. Genetic testing for a perfect personal cure of all kinds of diseases.
2. Transporter for a living person….unhurt. Heres another 2. Faster than light travel, either by skipping through space, folding space, exiting our universe and entering closer to our final destination, just plain going fast without squishing ourselves or what ever (without time passage consequences and altering our mass please). -Mary Mowder |
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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... and judging from your post(s), perhaps human cloning?
Of course, the classic sci-fi consequence of your #1 choice is the elimination of less-than-perfect people, and the inability to accept those perceived as less, or those who do not want to use the technology. A sci-fi writer might point out, for example, that if Mrs. Bell was not hearing impaired we may not have the telephone. Rod Serling's take on the concept on Twilight Zone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_12_Looks_Just_Like_You As for #1: I think that there is plenty to discover, and it would not surprise me a bit if someone were to prove the existence of, say, the Loch Ness Monster, or something similar. #2, the unlikely: I would like to see time travel. The idea of actually witnessing history and seeing what really happened is interesting. I also think we could go back in time to witness crimes and have extremely accurate court judgements (then again, if we could witness them why not prevent them?). |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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To harness magnetism for travel.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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ZachDavenport Inner circle Last time I posted I had one less than 1196 Posts
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You mean like a mag-lev train? Its been done. I personally don't want time travel to be made a reality. I think that everything both good and bad makes the world as it is, and I like the world right now. We would not be able to discern what things would affect what, and we would set off a chain reaction resulting in who knows what. If mythological creatures were to exist, it would be in the form of fossils. That is why we all think it is a myth. Immortality, I also take issue with. I personally think that if we live on earth for too long we would lose our sense of morality, and that would create obvious problems. I would like to see a teleporter, except the fact that so many things would be eliminated that I sometimes enjoy. There would be no more thinking in the car or in flight cinnamon cookies.
Reality is a real killjoy.
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts
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Light Sabers
Blasters Droids Interstellar travel whatever the means, but hopefully something that involves the name Starfleet Iron Man suits for personal flight as well as assisting people with spinal cord/other injuries Robocop... or Iron Man Soylent Green... Jk 
Doughnuts, baked goods, ice cream and other fried and cheesy foods that induce weight loss 
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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The world will be a polluted mess. The proletariats will live in squalor, while a small elite lives in isolated "islands" of luxury and corporate secrecy. Police and military will be privatized to serve the interests of the corporations that run the islands.
I will be dead and glad of it.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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Dinosaurs re-created? (OK, that might cause problems.
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But, for that matter, should we re-create other extinct species? |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, ZachDavenport wrote: Much more than that. Used as energy an dmaking items just about weightless so they can be moved easily. Remember I believe they were called "gravity cars" in Dick Tracy?
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Lewis Marks Maintaining a perfect score of 0 Posts
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I think a moon base is a definite. That is if the earthly governments can continue their cooperative efforts. I also think some sort of major decline and destruction of all societies as a distinct possibility. The divisive/cooperative cycles have been for ever but every year more countries and factions are closer to massive destructive capabilities and tolerances for each other continually grow further apart.
Then too, if we teach apes to become domestic servants, speak, and allow them to organize, we might be in big trouble some day. |
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Ray Tupper. Special user NG16. 749 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: is that you Tommy?
What do we want?
A cure for tourettes! When do we want it? C*nt! |
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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How about mining asteroids for resources?
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: And to think all this time I thought you were a "glass if half full" kind of guy! |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, Starrpower wrote: Only in the short term. 
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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If any of our predictions come true, maybe you won't be dead!
In the last few pages of his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin suggested that one day we may have anti-gravity technology to make the moving of goods easier. So are our predictions still going to be made 250 years hence, without being realized? To avoid stepping on a butterfly, how about if we could just view the past? I mean, if I could drop in on O.J. Simpson on that fatal night, I might be able to clear up a few details. |
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1338 Posts
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I think the bluetooth headsets are the first step towards increased cybernetic acceptances, and advancements. I think we'll see "chips" or microcomputers capable of wireless connectivity implanted in humans: interfacing with their brains. Such things as enhanced eyesight, smell, reaction may be possible. Information will download directly into nervous system, and humans will interact with external machines.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1338 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Member of the optimist club?
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts
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On May 13, 2015, Ray Tupper. wrote: 
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Levi Bennett Inner circle 1778 Posts
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I overlooked the part about "what do you think may happen" and only put down my hopes.
I would like to add that I think it's very possible that the island of Manhattan could one day be transformed into a maximum security prison and that a terrorist organization could crash land Air Force One into this prison, forcing the United States Police Force to send in our best chance at getting the President out, but not before injecting timed explosives into said hope's neck to add drama and urgency to the rescue operation. Who knows, if this were to actually happen John Carpenter might even make a movie out of it one day.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Relative immortality by means of humans becoming cyborgs.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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