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superscarface
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Posted - 2005.09.02 12:26:00 -
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I bring you, one hundred years of accurate prediction!
2005 - 2020: Technology will continue to develop at a rate of about 2x every 18 months. Production of robots will ensue  . Then there will be scary military advances, exoskeletons and such. And our superpowers will find even better ways of fighting "terror" whilst ignoring the escalating climatic changes.
2030: Oil runs out. Markets crash across the world, increased dependancy on coal. The power will shift to third world countries and places with lasting deposits. Areas dependant on oil will break apart, communications will end, and each region will be controlled by warring city states.
2030 - 2050: One hell of a war begins in the west as a desperate bid to grasp back some power. I run to the hills and live in a cave to survive 
2060: Just to add to our problems, there is now alot of melted ice. Gulf stream gets a kick in the nads, UK and surrounding areas get iceh.
2060 - 2100: The big boys come out on top. Icelandic folks have everything going for them, natural power sources, hydrogen ships n'stuff. They'll move in down south where its hotter, and begin conquering the world 
Feel free to add any actual facts to this. That was off the top of my head, but I do feel that something similar will happen. 
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Gamer4liff
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Posted - 2005.09.02 12:30:00 -
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2067, Starcraft 2 comes out.
hydrogen power will save us.
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danneh
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Posted - 2005.09.02 12:51:00 -
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2110: eve reaches 20000000000 accounts.
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RedClaws
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Posted - 2005.09.02 12:51:00 -
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I can belief the 2005-2020 prediction :D
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danneh
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Posted - 2005.09.02 12:52:00 -
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Edited by: danneh on 02/09/2005 12:52:18
When fuel runs out cars will be run at hydrogen(sp).
We have 1 bus that runs on that here in Iceland.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.09.02 14:09:00 -
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The one thing we do know is that the Earth is getting warmer ... we don't know why, or how much of that warming is due to human activity and how much would be happening regardless, but we know for a certainty now that it IS getting warmer.
What will that cause? Well ... we don't know. There are no reliable records of what happens during major changes in the climate. There's been significant periods of it being COLDER than the 20th century: eg. the Viking settlements in Greenland dying out c.1400, the Thames freezing solid every winter 1750-1815 ... but warmer? We're not sure.
If it opens up the steppes, Russia could emerge as the number one economic power in the world, as people move from no-longer-pleasant places into Siberia to make a living. Canada might profit from migration northwards out of the USA, too. And yes, the Gulf stream might well get knocked out of kilter, reducing the UK and northwest Europe to the sort of weather northern Canada gets at the moment.
Good job I prefer the cold 
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Dirtball
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Posted - 2005.09.02 15:42:00 -
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people in the know call Fuel cells Fool cells
it will be a good day when the oil runs out.
However if oil is king atm, why arn't the oil producing countries kings of the world taking over everything right now in the present, that is a flaw I find in your prediction.
and when will protoculture be discovered lol 
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Emille
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Posted - 2005.09.02 16:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Gamer4liff
2067, Starcraft 2 comes out.
2287, Duke Nukem forever released.
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Neon Genesis
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Posted - 2005.09.02 16:30:00 -
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Edited by: Neon Genesis on 02/09/2005 16:31:02
Edited by: Neon Genesis on 02/09/2005 16:30:32
2005-2020: People begin playing more games where they are off planet earth to escape the horrors of our oil-less world. Eve recieves a massive boost in subcribers (nearly all 6 billion people on earth) and becomes the major power in iceland, and later the world.
2020-2100: Tomb siezes the title of emporer of earth, eve becomes reality in his vision.
The End.
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There, i just contributed nothing to your thread
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MAXSuicide
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Posted - 2005.09.02 17:41:00 -
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China begins the 3rd world war.
some point in the future.
My vids and random stuff
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Weeman
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Posted - 2005.09.02 17:54:00 -
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Edited by: Weeman on 02/09/2005 17:53:54
North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and China form a four way tag team to take down Asia and the near/middle east
Edited for counting :/
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Gojak
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Posted - 2005.09.02 18:05:00 -
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Originally by: MAXSuicide
China begins the 3rd world war.
some point in the future.
More like: China decides it's had enough and simply tells everyone they're beaten. Realists concede defeat.
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Captain Rod
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Posted - 2005.09.02 18:06:00 -
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Originally by: Dirtball
people in the know call Fuel cells Fool cells
it will be a good day when the oil runs out.
However if oil is king atm, why arn't the oil producing countries kings of the world taking over everything right now in the present, that is a flaw I find in your prediction.
and when will protoculture be discovered lol
Due to politics, trade laws, and aforementioned super-power having control over these. 
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Captain Rod
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Posted - 2005.09.02 18:06:00 -
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Originally by: Dirtball
people in the know call Fuel cells Fool cells
it will be a good day when the oil runs out.
However if oil is king atm, why arn't the oil producing countries kings of the world taking over everything right now in the present, that is a flaw I find in your prediction.
and when will protoculture be discovered lol
Due to politics, trade laws, and aforementioned super-power having control over these.
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Gift
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Posted - 2005.09.02 19:23:00 -
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2005 - 2105:
òPeople will continue to predict the end of the world in their generation.
òThe world will not end
òPeople will continue to blame "global warming" for even the most mundane & common place natural events.
òPeople will continue blame the present U.S. administration for all of the worldÆs problems.
òAdministrations will continue the idiotic task or declaring wars on ideologies.
òI will be flamed
òThe first "Girls Gone Wild in Space" will be released.
òOil will be replaced by hydrogen fuel by all of the current companies & they will continue their "price gouging" tactics.
òFox will continue to spit out crappy reality TV show
òWe will meet aliens
òI will score with an alien and it will be great
òUFC will replace all current sports and become the worldÆs pastime
òAmerican parents will sue the UFC because their children imitated it & scraped their knees. The UFC will file bankruptcy & be forced to close.
òPeople will finally realize PG13 movies suck ass
òI will die :(
òYou will die :(
òMost things portrayed in the movie "demolition man" will come to pass
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BlackHawk177
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Posted - 2005.09.02 20:58:00 -
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Originally by: Gift
2005 - 2105:
òFox will continue to spit out crappy reality TV show
Nooooooooooo..... Anything but that, Please Anything else but that.
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Zeepo
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Posted - 2005.09.03 06:51:00 -
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" I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones " |
pshepherd
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Posted - 2005.09.03 10:13:00 -
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Originally by: Zeepo
" I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones "
einstein said that didn't he?
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Meehan
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Posted - 2005.09.03 10:57:00 -
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Edited by: Meehan on 03/09/2005 10:58:33
That European climate is dependant on the Gulf Stream is a common misconception... even more so after people saw the Day of Tomorrow. European climate is actually more dependant on the Rocky Mountains, which pushes low pressures over the North Atlantic in over the European continent.
As a comparison; look at the Canadian eastern coastline. It has a relatively 'mild climate', despite lacking in Gulf Stream warmth and even having the Labrador Current to cool it off considerably. Thus, the lack of warm stream in Europe wouldn't be as catastrophal as people think, especially since we don't have the Labrador equivalent.
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Mad Ahab
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Posted - 2005.09.03 13:51:00 -
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Originally by: pshepherd
Originally by: Zeepo
" I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones "
einstein said that didn't he?
He did indeed surely say that.
Oh... 2028 - The Japanese will start releasing female sex androids as an option with all of their automobiles. Thus, effectively drawing the card that makes the hand to kick the big three US companies out of the competition once and for all.
2029 - Microsoft buys Honda and with the purchased Sex Bot technology creates a new gaming sensation called the "SeX-Box". Also develops the first alternative fuel souce vehicle that runs solely on methane. 20% of the population rebels and starts pushing for oil again because "They just hate Microsoft".
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Kedo
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Posted - 2005.09.03 17:45:00 -
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Quote:
The one thing we do know is that the Earth is getting warmer ... we don't know why, or how much of that warming is due to human activity and how much would be happening regardless, but we know for a certainty now that it IS getting warmer.
What will that cause? Well ... we don't know. There are no reliable records of what happens during major changes in the climate. There's been significant periods of it being COLDER than the 20th century: eg. the Viking settlements in Greenland dying out c.1400, the Thames freezing solid every winter 1750-1815 ... but warmer? We're not sure.
If it opens up the steppes, Russia could emerge as the number one economic power in the world, as people move from no-longer-pleasant places into Siberia to make a living. Canada might profit from migration northwards out of the USA, too. And yes, the Gulf stream might well get knocked out of kilter, reducing the UK and northwest Europe to the sort of weather northern Canada gets at the moment.
Global warming causes global freezing. If the planet is getting warmer then expect an ice age. Hence why there have been numerous ice ages on this planet.
You are right with everything else tho, not enough data to predict if we are the cause of the warming or it is just in its cycle. Hence why 25% of scientists will tell you that the global warming is not man caused.
Expect people to move to the equator though not Canada NEVER Canada!
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Vydek Daamth
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Posted - 2005.09.03 20:05:00 -
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2005 - 2020: Petroleum reservers start to run low 3rd world oil producing countries enact an embargo. Forced to find alternative fuel sources, a better way to seperate hydogen from water is found, and the hydrogen fuelcell becomes viable. Canada with the help of nano tech improves the conversion rate in solor cells, and new homes are now built with solor cell roof tiles. The diesel motor is converted back to running off of vegetable oil. The West stops trying to influence the 3rd world oil producing countries.
2030: Petroleum markets crash across the world, caused by increased dependancy on alternative fuel sources. 3rd world oil producing counties blame the western world for their economic problems. Secular extremism runs rampant.
2030 - 2050: Super viruses are released in 80% of all major western cities. World pandemic ensues 99.99% of world population dies.
2051 - Future: We rebuild and repopulate just to do it all over again.
I kinda prefer we all just grow gills and live in the oceans. And learn to speak with dolpins.
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RedClaws2
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Posted - 2005.09.05 19:40:00 -
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actually we already have loads of alternate powers but we aren't using them.
Goverments and other big guys are forcing them down.
Here in belgium there was a newsitem with ppl using normal kitchenoil to let their cars drive : 0.75Ç instead of the 1.20Ç per litre and it ran without damage to the car at all.
But goverment made it illegal : why? we don't know
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babyblue
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Posted - 2005.09.05 21:19:00 -
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Originally by: Meehan
Edited by: Meehan on 03/09/2005 10:58:33
That European climate is dependant on the Gulf Stream is a common misconception... even more so after people saw the Day of Tomorrow. European climate is actually more dependant on the Rocky Mountains, which pushes low pressures over the North Atlantic in over the European continent.
As a comparison; look at the Canadian eastern coastline. It has a relatively 'mild climate', despite lacking in Gulf Stream warmth and even having the Labrador Current to cool it off considerably. Thus, the lack of warm stream in Europe wouldn't be as catastrophal as people think, especially since we don't have the Labrador equivalent.
As far I as know, it isn't the Gulf Stream, it's the North Atlantic Drift (of which the gulf stream is a manifestation) that is under threat. This would, certain assumptions being made, cease in it's present form with greater amounts of fresh water being released from the Ice Caps due to global warming. Consequently, it is theorised that North Western Europe will no longer have the relatively warm summers we currently experience.
However, as someone else has pointed out, it's all conjecture, because climate models are too primitive to be able to predict very much at all.
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Zac Paris
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Posted - 2005.09.05 21:36:00 -
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2050s - Employers start using DNA to filter suitable employees.
2063 - The year we make first contact. 
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fairimear
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Posted - 2005.09.05 21:51:00 -
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2020:- first maned visit to mars.
extream take up of space by 2060 humanity is well estabilished around our solar system.
mean time they invent cool mind transfer and cloning so very few people die and i can live forever as your supream ruler.
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Kedo
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Posted - 2005.09.05 22:15:00 -
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They have cars that run on hydrogen, though it is fairly combustable so they are looking into safer ways to carry it isntead of just in a tank. Binding it with other elements and removing it is looking promising and it is 100% non combustable in that state.
They have designed a car that runs on nuclear power though it costs 1 million bucks. It lasts 20 years before needing its core changed, and when not in use can be plugged into your house to power it. Cost is too expensive at this time for this to be a good choice. As for those wondering about the safety of nuclear powered cars, they have very safe mothods of doing it in place.
As for me, I am waiting for a car that just takes water in the tank, uses the process of electrolosis to turn it into oxygen/hydrogen, which then can be combusted for energy which then in turn creates water which can be recycled into the tank.
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Bhaal
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Posted - 2005.09.05 22:17:00 -
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Edited by: Bhaal on 05/09/2005 22:21:29
2010 - Human Cloning will be a reality. It will quickly be used to create super soldiers.
2050 - Cybernetics goes into full swing, Cloning + Cybernetics = a new race of humans.
2100 - Homo-Cyberectus Race scours the earth to destroy all remaining humans on planet earth. Homo-Sapien race is extinct. Many variations of Cyborgs are created to live & thrive on many of the moons & planets of Sol.
3000 - This humanoid race is similar to the Borg, Interstellar travel is now viable due to new technologies and extreme life-spans of the Borg like race.
25,000 - The galaxy is consumed by this new and ever evolving humanoid race. Extraterrestrial life is encountered again and again throughout the galaxy, but it is destroyed, viewed as a threat to the Cyborgs existence.
1,000,000,000 - The known universe is infested with the now completely organic Cyborgs, and intra-dimensional travel is discovered. The Cyborgs begin to infest other dimensions.
10 E+100 - This locust type humanoid race has infested BILLIONS of other dimensional planes, all other life is destroyed.
All of this of course will be blamed on President George W Bush who I voted for twice.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.09.05 22:58:00 -
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Originally by: Kedo
As for me, I am waiting for a car that just takes water in the tank, uses the process of electrolosis to turn it into oxygen/hydrogen, which then can be combusted for energy which then in turn creates water which can be recycled into the tank.
Oh dear. That's like pumping water uphill, and letting it drive the turbines to power the pumps as it comes back down again.
The world just does not work like that. You'd use more power electrolysing it then it would generate when it combined; so whatever power source is doing the electolysis would be better employed just running the car in the first place.
Solar energy is the answer to all of our problems. It's unlimited (for the next four billion years, anyway), it's free once you've built the infrastructure. Now all we need is someone to pay for a couple of hundred square miles' worth of solar panels to be hauled into space.
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Adonis 4174
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Posted - 2005.09.06 02:40:00 -
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You know, I really don't understand why America doesn't use more solar energy. I mean, there's places in the south where you cannot stay outside for long in summer because the sun is just too damn hot. Surely this is the perfect climate for solar power?
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Hydrocarbon
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Posted - 2005.09.06 19:11:00 -
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Old solar cells are expensive, fragile and require high-tech manufacturing (including clean rooms).
Newer cells are made from...plastic.
Solar tech won't be economically attractive until oil reaches ~$300USD per barrel. By that time, the global economy will have already collapsed.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.09.06 19:46:00 -
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Edited by: Baldour Ngarr on 06/09/2005 19:47:30
Originally by: Hydrocarbon
Solar tech won't be economically attractive until oil reaches ~$300USD per barrel. By that time, the global economy will have already collapsed.
But the cost of an equivalent quantity of solar energy, to that contained in a barrel of oil, is ... errr ... nothing. The stuff is free, and unlimited.
It's just that people can never see the long term view. They won't build the infrastructure, until what you say probably does come about.
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vanBuskirk
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Posted - 2005.09.07 17:46:00 -
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For one take on this, see the following two sites:
Accelerando!
Orion's Arm
Far out, but if you consider Moore's law and what it means (human brain equivalent desktop PC by about 2030) it may make sense.
EVE isn't anything like fantastic enough.
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Hanns
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Posted - 2005.09.07 18:26:00 -
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Edited by: Hanns on 07/09/2005 18:27:43
2064 - Hanns reaches 673million Skillpoints
Heavy NOS 4tw! |
Nafri
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Posted - 2005.09.07 18:32:00 -
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Originally by: Gamer4liff
2067, Starcraft 2 comes out.
hydrogen power will save us.
also called "The End of SouthKorea"
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Tsual
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Posted - 2005.09.07 20:54:00 -
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Could be that before Hydrogen, gas is replaced by ethanol, so no more drinks for you when you want to drive.
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Hydrocarbon
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Posted - 2005.09.07 21:53:00 -
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Edited by: Hydrocarbon on 07/09/2005 21:53:56
Ethanol is a net energy loss. That means you expend more energy (between diesel irrigation pumps, fertilizers and pesticides made from petrochemicals, diesel-powered planting/harvesting equipment, transportation in diesel-powered trucks and distillation heaters fueled by natural gas) than you will EVER extract from it. The ratio of energy invested vs. energy returned is approximately 6:1. That means, for every gallon of ethanol you produce, you have to burn 6 gallons of petrochemicals.
Then, you have to find somewhere to grow all that sugar cane (more efficient in terms of gallons per acre-year than corn). You can produce roughly 2,188 gallons per acre year of sugar cane. Considering worldwide consumption of gasoline was ~138,000,000,000 gallons in 2000 (the most recent year I have statistics for, but that figure has grown roughly 1.4% per year since then), you would need 63,071,297 acres or 255,241.5 km^2. That's larger than the entire UK (including Rockall and the Shetland Islands)
The only reason ethanol is cheap right now, is because it's heavily government subsidized.
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Reiisha
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Posted - 2005.09.08 01:34:00 -
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2015 - Oil runs out. Conflicts ensue over the remaining stashes, especially between the US and Europe. Most Asian countries will already have converted to new energy sources, as has most of Europe. The 3rd world war will begin with environmental and ethical backgrounds - nukes will probably not be used here, since this will be a half-cold war about some territories in the Middle East.
2016 - The worldwide recession that has been going on since since the previous millenium, and the worsening of the situation since 2012, will cause an economic breakdown which will end the war prematurely, ending in a revolution in the US. This is due to a very long running conflict between the military and the intelligence agencies (nsa/cia/fbi) and the bureaucratic government. The new government type will remain to be seen, as this is very unclear. Needless to say, the pwoer balance shifts.
2025 - All oil has been used up, and other natural resources like it have all but vanished. The big oil companies mysteriously file for bankruptcy, putting millions of people without a job, while the CEO's retire with a couple of trillion dollars on their accounts. This marks the low point of the recession.
2026 - China emerges as the world's new superpower, pioneering in the new energy sources aswell as industry. Europe/Japan will take the lead in high-tech, and nuclear fusion gets it's premiere with the first public reactor brought online in France, quickly followed by another one in the UK.
2033 - Depending on the trajectory of certain celestial bodies, a world-wide alarm is issues due to an apparent collision course of a 10km wide asteroid. The consequences of this roid hitting the planet are widely known, i hope.
2034 - Whether the roid hit or not, the UN will develop into a world government more than a loose gathering of bureaucrats. This development will be slow, regardless of whether the roid hit or not in this year. Numerous nationalist factions appear as a reaction to this.
2040 - The nationalist and seperatist groups have become quieter and are levelling down to a presence on the background. Meanwhile, the UN (or whatever name the organization takes) still has trouble gaining the trust of certain countries, due to a very sceptical look of most of them on a central government. The economy is getting up, and Africa is getting more industrialized after the country borders have been redrawn after 20 years of continental civil war - they now represent more accurately the territories of the factions living there, instead of the arbitrary borders drawn by western colonists. This drives their economic development up at a level comparable to the one in Europe, shortly after WW2.
In the meantime, technology is at a level where free information exchange has become impervious to any attempts to shut it down. China, while not being in a revolution due to this, still has trouble managing this fact. A revolution will also stay out, since the government has developed into a more liberal communist regime - more personal freedoms and no censorship - although propaganda and government control still are important and pwoerful enough. Most citizens don't care about the various radical elements anyway, since their lifestyle is very much on par with the average lifestyle in Western countries, due to the rapid economic development.
2040+ - From here on, developments will depend on how the corporate world handles the new information system and power blocks. Western corps which originated from the US only have a small foothold in Europe and almost none in Asia. The power of money has been decreased at least a little, because the bureaucratic democracy which was so prevalent 40 years before crumbled into nothingness, taking corruption with it, for the most part. The space race will just be a co÷peration between Asia and Europe, since neither needs the publicity to maintain their images.
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Bhaal
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Posted - 2005.09.08 01:52:00 -
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I must say Reiisha, you really have it in for the US huh?
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Mad Ahab
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Posted - 2005.09.08 06:07:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
You know, I really don't understand why America doesn't use more solar energy. I mean, there's places in the south where you cannot stay outside for long in summer because the sun is just too damn hot. Surely this is the perfect climate for solar power?
Alot of places would be ideal for solar power in the US. It has some disadvantages though that keep it out of the mainstream for now. Also, during the night time we would need power. Thus a hybrid system is probably the desired energy solution for many. Considering the fact that energy companies were allowed to privatize and were deregulated, the cost is going up and these solutions get looked into more and more. This is one of many that are creative. Fibar Optic Solar Lighting
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Sherkaner
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Posted - 2005.09.08 09:14:00 -
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Locked. Please keep politics out of this forum 
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