I am alive at the best possible time

I think its passed.
I think pre 2001 was the best time. No government BS, no "terrorists" just plain walk where you want do what you want.
 
I doubt by 2050 we will still be using fossil fuels to power everything. More than likely fusion power i think.
 
SideWinder said:
I like squirrels. Quite a lot live on my Uni campus. :)
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One met it's demise in my garden on monday. Dirty horrible vermin. Rats with fluffy tails is all they are.

Someone later told me it's actually law to kill them if you can catch them. I have no idea as to truthfulness of this.
 
divine` said:
One met it's demise in my garden on monday. Dirty horrible vermin. Rats with fluffy tails is all they are.

Someone later told me it's actually law to kill them if you can catch them. I have no idea as to truthfulness of this.
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It is illegal to release grey squirrels or to allow them to escape into the wild, under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so anyone who catches one is obliged to kill it.
 
strudey said:
Horribly mistaken idea. Printing did not arrive in Europe until the 14th century - any books were written by hand, the books in England numbered in the hundreds, and 'education' such as it was was reserved for the super-rich. People died young, and simple treatments for ailments and diseases did not exist. Superstition permeated all aspects of existence for the vast majority of people. Life was cruel, difficult and short.

I'm happy I had the indescribable luck to be born in a time and a place which doesn't really really suck.
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I suppose it depends what you want out of life, tbh. In the 10th century or so you didn't need education, not in the way you need it now. You tended your land, paid your taxes and tried to survive. Unless you were a member of the upper classes, of course.

However, after many years working in IT and seeing the state of this planet on the news every day. Murder, rape terrorism, global warming, etc. etc. sometimes I think it would be great to go back to those times.

Sure it would be a tough life, but also a very condensed outlook. You're worries would be whether your livestock had adequate grazing, whether your crops grew and how you would cope if you broke a leg. Apart from that, not much would touch you. You'de get a bit of gossip now and again from the travelling merchants. Now and a gain the fayre would come and there would be a religeous holiday, time to let your hair down a bit perhaps.

In some ways, it's a much more peaceful life than nowadays.


Could I live like that? Hmmm, not sure. I'm conditioned to live with modern conveniences. I expect to have the TV, the radio, travel, holidays, computer games, printing, mass production, supermarkets, etc. etc.

If I was dropped back there now, I'd find it incredibly hard to survive. The isolation would drive me bonkers. No one different to talk to for weeks on end. Not much to look forward to. Meagre meals. backbreaking work.

However, if I had been born into that time, I'd know no better. You cannot miss what you do not comprehend. The peasant on a 10th century plot wouldn't miss the playstation, or the internet, or a car or train or bus. He may wish to better himself, but those aims would be a bit more land, another cow, a couple of chickens. Now we aim for a bigger car, a faster computer, the latest games, holidays abroad, whatever.

I don't think we live in the best possible time, but neither do I think that there have been many times (relative) that have been much worse. The wars would be hard, so many loved ones lost, and there have been plenty of wars to avoid, but apart from that, during those times that this country has been fairly free from the direct affect of wars, I'd say life has not been bad, in many respects.
 
Man I would love to be frozen in time for a 1000 years and then revived. Just like Fry from futurama. !!! just imagine the games then, i'm thinking total virtual game immersion, kinda like the one in red dwarf!! hehhe. Plug me in and feed my body fluids!
KJ
 
Noah had a massive problem with the Ark though, all those animals produced millions and millions of tons of crap, Noah decided it would be a good idea to dump it all overboard and there it lay for thousands of years until Christopher Columbus discovered it.
 
salami1212 said:
no lcd tvs.. no xbox 360... no bugatti veyron.. times change for the better

and terrorists have always been around
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sure they were around, but was there a mention of them in every newspaper every day,
I am sick of the following words

Weapons of mass destruction
Basra
British Troops in basra
Iraq
Armed forces
September 11th
Saddam
Terrorists
Carbon footprint
carbon emissions
climate change (i am sure wars in iraq change the climate more than me going to work in my car)

Also oil was a lot cheaper :D
Just so much **** about these topics involving terrorists. I am sick of hearing about them.
 
In a way it is indeed possible to view our lifetimes as the best possible times. Technology has advanced during our life at a rate hundreds of times of that of our greatgrandfathers.

Look back at history, never has as much happened as in the 20th century, and now going into the 21st we are building on that technology at an exponential rate. Being alive far back in history must have been a complete drag, nothing much new, not a lot going on, poverty everywhere. People from the future can look back at these times and consider the technology primitive, but we have all the base technology and standard of living that they will ever have.
 
Kitejumper said:
Man I would love to be frozen in time for a 1000 years and then revived. Just like Fry from futurama. !!! just imagine the games then, i'm thinking total virtual game immersion, kinda like the one in red dwarf!! hehhe. Plug me in and feed my body fluids!
KJ
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So if you woke up in a thousand years, the first thing you would do is play a computer game? I think it would be the last thing id do. I think id spend my time marveling at the advances in science, technology, architecture and above all, space travel.
 
Messiah Khan said:
So if you woke up in a thousand years, the first thing you would do is play a computer game? I think it would be the last thing id do. I think id spend my time marveling at the advances in science, technology, architecture and above all, space travel.
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If i woke up in 1000 years and space travel was possiable I'd become a space pirate and ninja all the lootz then travel back in time and take over the world :D

edit: or I'd spend my time beating down our alian overlords with a crowbar
 
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