• The Frontier Is Everywhere (NASA)
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[hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0[/hd] Beautifully done video. Still, it depresses me to know that I won't be apart of that space 'species'.
I predict Carl Sagan Edit: Yep
I don't think the expectations of the "new" people should be so high because look at what we used to be how humble and nice some people could be now the world is filled greed and wants
Beeeeeeeeeeautiful.
so much carl sagan [editline]12th January 2011[/editline] amazing in 720p
sagan gives me goosebumps
Fucking Sagan, so good at making me shiver. That's why I love him.
We need to discover immortality before I die, I wanna' see the universe. :smith:
[QUOTE=ketchup;27360427][hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0[/hd] Beautifully done video. Still, it depresses me to know that I won't be apart of that space 'species'.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Billiam;27362131]We need to discover immortality before I die, I wanna' see the universe. :smith:[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism[/url] Read some of Ray Kurzweil's books. He makes an excellent case, and we're about at a point where another explosion of technology is going to leap forward. You can see it happening if you look in the right places. Most of the western world will be playing catch-up to other areas because of economic and societal devastation, but there will still be far more progress than destruction. If you want the best chance to be part of the next stage of human development, try to locate yourself near places where there is a young, progressive (not stuck in tradition) society of openness - Africa (mostly eastern), Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia. Human-equivalent cybernetics by 2040? Easily possible. If your life expectancy puts you as middle-aged by 2050, you'll see a world more radically different than today's is from a century ago. From there, life-extension galore. Then we will have to rethink our existence. I realized at one point that the more I understand conceptually, the less I know is absolute. The greatest challenge is adapting, changing the way we think. If you can recreate yourself, discarding the old and worn-out while incorporating the new and promising, you'll be able to understand the potential of the future, even without knowing the exact direction.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/jDfkR.jpg[/img] :smith:
I still like this one better. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw[/media]
Half the footage is from "Baraka", check it out if you like expertly filmed scenes, without story or commentary.
Just watched it two times in a row. Touching
I am sad now
Kinda sad now :saddowns:
Going into engineering. I have made it my life goal to try and push back our understanding of space, supersonic flight, human achievement. Although These dreams will probably come to nothing, at least i will try damn'it. And if one small thing, if i can look up at a new space shuttle, or a mars rover, or even (fingers crossed) a human landing on mars, i may be able to look up and say "i designed that landing gear" or even as insignificant as "I designed that one panel that fitted over the oil pipe" I will feel that i have done my part to uphold what human beings are there to do, to explore and discover. There are my two cents.
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