I am alive at the best possible time
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All they would have to do is stay in groups of 3, one would sleep while the other 2 carried it, its a flawless system
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FAIL.
I think we'll all be happy still in 100 years, its too soon for any huge changes. Maybe 400 years or so we'll start seeing problems, but I'd like to hope the world leaders can divert global warming, find alternate fuel sources and prevent mass deforestation.
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Just land on the Ark!
It'd make sense, but then there wouldn't have been an opportunity to show how dodgey magpies are. All the other animals in the world went inside, the magpies perched on top and cackled as the world drowned.
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Just land on the Ark!
Maybe there was food inside the Ark.
I did read that in 100 years men will be taller and have bigger penises, but sort of be slightly hunch back like Mr Burns off of the Simpsons.
Life will go on, but we will destroy ourselves at one point in the future.
I mean scientists already reckon it will be possible to stop people ageing so fast or even be able to reverse it.
If that does become a reality, how greedy will people come? Nearly everyone would like to live for ever, but as sad as death is, it is part of life which is needed.
As for OP, I reckon in 100 years life will be very different to what it is now. I believe that as we are starting to rely on technology so much that our health will be a main concern. Like an article saying more and more kids now are sitting infront of a tv playing computer games instead of going up the park to play football. Again people forget that we need bacteria in our bodies as this builds up our immune system. I'm not saying go roll around in the mud but with technology advancing at a fast rate, people won't have time to do exercise and stuff etc. It's already been proved that our country is becoming fatter more and more each day.
That or another "big" war will happen.
Life will go on, but we will destroy ourselves at one point in the future.
I mean scientists already reckon it will be possible to stop people ageing so fast or even be able to reverse it.
If that does become a reality, how greedy will people come? Nearly everyone would like to live for ever, but as sad as death is, it is part of life which is needed.
As for OP, I reckon in 100 years life will be very different to what it is now. I believe that as we are starting to rely on technology so much that our health will be a main concern. Like an article saying more and more kids now are sitting infront of a tv playing computer games instead of going up the park to play football. Again people forget that we need bacteria in our bodies as this builds up our immune system. I'm not saying go roll around in the mud but with technology advancing at a fast rate, people won't have time to do exercise and stuff etc. It's already been proved that our country is becoming fatter more and more each day.
That or another "big" war will happen.
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Mr Burns has a big penis?
Didn't say I'd wana live in England.(More like Spain, North Africa or the Middle East) The reason why I chose around the 10th century give or take a few hundred years is cos it's was the Golden Age of Islam where there was a lot of progress in science, medicine etc, progress that put the rest of the world to shame. Of course I wouldn't want to have lived in a slum
. The reason why I like modern times and one of the very few reasons is cos anyone has an oppurtunity to education at university level(least in the UK, no matter what income you have).
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Interesting. Ignorance is bliss, right? I'm a little biased I think. I grew up in a little village in one of the poorest placest in the world. The nearest road was two days walk away, the nearest hospital three days, and people lived off what they could grow.
Their lives were essentially medieval. In some ways it was idyllic, and people did genuinely seem as happy as they do in the west. Locals (men, women, children) worked all day in the fields, ate the same meal every day (vegetarian curry and rice type thing), slept when it was dark, and men got drunk at the weekends and religious festivals on stupidly strong home-made alcohol. Kids got basic education, and if they weren't bright enough to get a job in the town or strong enough to be a Gurkha, they'd get married at 13/14 and settle down into the same sort of life. Some locals had literally never seen a car. Most worshipped the king of the country as a sort of demi-god.
Where it fell down: no proper education. No freedom of speech. No equal rights: three layers of caste, a lower-caste person couldn't eat in the same room as an upper-caste person. Completely corrupt officials (and there weren't even many of these). Health-care came in the form of a shaman. No contraception (by the time I left a travelling vasectomy clinic had reached the village. Men literally queued up). No lighting in the houses. No proper shoes, no warm clothes, no rain-coats in the monsoon, wicker baskets instead of rucksacks, houses made from dried mud, the same under-nourishing meal every single day. No showers or baths, no clean water until we came. There was no electricity, houses looked like this only with slate rooves. Nothing to show for life-time of back-breaking work except your own survival.
A pot of boiling water rolled onto a little boy. His dad carried him for a day and a night to get him to hospital, but the kid died before he reached it, his skin hanging off him in strips. Cataracts blinded people. Diarrhea could kill them. If you were born with a disability of any kind, you relied entirely on the kindness of locals.
This was just the stuff I saw: and I was a sheltered white kid. I don't know about crime and stuff like that, but suffice to say in seven years I can remember seeing a policeman once. I understand what you're saying about not knowing any better, but people still knew that they didn't want one in ten of their kids to die before they were three. Before saying you'd like to live like that, try walking in their shoes for a bit, know what I mean? I know they'd swap with you in a flash.
I eould love a half way life. Build my own wood hut in the middle of a forest. With plenty of game/fruit/shrooms to eat. have my own gardens with veg and fruit. a few wind turbines to power a few mod cons. And just live of the land. But with some modern things.
But you would have to buy a seizable chunk of forest to achieve that
. This is one reason I would love to move somewhere like Canada. where I could just go canoeing for a week and survive of the land.
I think you ned to look at time and place, not just time. You are in danger of making the mistake that the whole world is just like yours at any given time.
I think for instance, the North American Indians prior to the arrival of the white invaders would have had a pretty good balanced lifestyle. Similarly pacific islanders up till contact with european mariners. Similarly Australian aboriginees.
I guess you can see that I think technology is not a prerequisite for happiness.
Also, mass extinctions have been a fact of life on this planet of billions of years (or at least since the earliest creatures existed). It is simply not possible to kill ALL life on earth. The current extinctions may become yet another mass extinction but you need to take a long view. In a few hundred million years everything will be fine again as ecological niches are created and organism adapt and move into them. (Unless you are a creationist in which case things must look pretty dire to you).
In lab experiments overcrowding and sterility go hand in hand. I don't think the human population will ever expand to the frightening levels people think. The planet simply can't sustain it. We will soil our environment so much our overall health and fertility levels will bring about a natural balance. Anyone who has kept guppies in a tropical fish tank will know what I mean.
I think for instance, the North American Indians prior to the arrival of the white invaders would have had a pretty good balanced lifestyle. Similarly pacific islanders up till contact with european mariners. Similarly Australian aboriginees.
I guess you can see that I think technology is not a prerequisite for happiness.
Also, mass extinctions have been a fact of life on this planet of billions of years (or at least since the earliest creatures existed). It is simply not possible to kill ALL life on earth. The current extinctions may become yet another mass extinction but you need to take a long view. In a few hundred million years everything will be fine again as ecological niches are created and organism adapt and move into them. (Unless you are a creationist in which case things must look pretty dire to you).
In lab experiments overcrowding and sterility go hand in hand. I don't think the human population will ever expand to the frightening levels people think. The planet simply can't sustain it. We will soil our environment so much our overall health and fertility levels will bring about a natural balance. Anyone who has kept guppies in a tropical fish tank will know what I mean.
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Not sure about that.
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got 4 tigers (2 adults, 2 cubs) about 5 minutes walk down the road from me, at paignton zoo
Although thankfully, ive also seen them in the wild, along with several other rare animals like the black rhino in kruger national park in SA which unfortunately was declared extinct in 2006.
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It sounds as though you hope to find a few prowling around town on a saturday.
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