Doing the impossible

Name something you think is impossible, that will probably happen in the next 100 years. :)

Me becoming an AF mod:(

Originally posted by MaximusGTR
Me becoming an AF mod:( :huh:

impossible != unlikely

Think impossible. Like man on the moon stuff.

Jay@AF will finish another model :p

Scoring.

In 50 years, when I do score, I will be to old to remember it.:(

Originally posted by 450HPviper
Scoring.

In 50 years, when I do score, I will be to old to remember it.:(

:confused: I'm lost

I'm lost

Well, I'm burnt.:D

Originally posted by MaximusGTR


:confused: I'm lost

Scoring as in Getting Laid...:rolleyes:

Originally posted by jay@af
Name something you think is impossible, that will probably happen in the next 100 years. :)

Colonisation of the moon
Manned flight to Mars
No more petrol-powered cars, electric power will be fast and efficient

Nanotechnology, much hype, but nothing has really happened, but I'm pretty sure in 100 years it'll be in everything.

Originally posted by Focus2000


Colonisation of the moon
Manned flight to Mars
No more petrol-powered cars, electric power will be fast and efficient


he stole my hydrogen/electric powered cars idea...

but im guessing they may... and this would be CRAZY but the fastest prodcution car could be hydrogen..thatd be nutz itself

Probably have cures for a lot of disease's hopefully cancer and aids would be cured by then

Originally posted by jay@af
Name something you think is impossible, that will probably happen in the next 100 years. :)

unifying all of physics into a single theory.

Man walking on the Moon. The first story told on this was total BS, it was all propoganda designed to beat the Russians in the space race.

If it was so possible over 30 years ago, then why is it that we haven't put anyone back on the Moon with today's technology that is supposed to be so superior to yesteryear's technology?

quad turbo V-8 available to the public for cheap;)

Car audio will surpass 200 dB. right now the record is 178 i think.

A quick easy cure for cancer

A cheap, readily available cure to the common cold.

Ridding the world of tobacco smoking.

Me getting my Pilots Lisence;)

me and tyju32602 soving our problems:rolleyes:

Originally posted by k_dog
me and tyju32602 soving our problems:rolleyes:


That is not going to be impossible...you know that...there is nothing that is impossible

Originally posted by tyju32602



That is not going to be impossible...you know that...there is nothing that is impossible


Licking your elbow :D :rolleyes:

Originally posted by k_dog
me and tyju32602 soving our problems:rolleyes:

what is 'soving'?

A movie a la American Pie getting an Oscar. :)

A sure-fire cure for Alzheimer's didease. It runs in my family.

Maybe a real cure for baldness.

In the next hundred years?

Nano technology
The recreation of an active and advancing space program, including setting up of a base on the moon and a manned flight to Mars.
The colapse of the American Emprire.
The rise of the European Empire.
The Pasification and modernisation of Islam.
The collapse and loss of Christianity as a driving force behind most of our cultural values.
The Bakery going two weeks with out a major break down.
Mass comunication devies developed to a level that they are intergrated into your bodies, and enable us to contact anyone, anywhere at little to know expense. Imagine being able to talk to someone on the other side of the world in real time, while your driving to work and it costs no more than calling your next door neighbor.
Development of another, or over whelming refinment of mass transit that will enable cheap safe and quick travel between land masses. (i.e. Scram jets cheaper than current air travel, or totaly new idea)
The car as we know it will go the same way as the horse, it will be repaced by something car like, but only in the sence that its a mass transit device. The car as we know it will, be left to enthusiasts with lots of money who can only go "driving" on week ends.
A totaly new form of computing being developed.
Increased reliance on computers to control things.
The internet as we know it would be considered primitive.
Thought control of computer systems.
I could keep going..........................
.....but one thing that won't change is the amount of death and suffering caused by the exploitation and unequal wealth distribution required to create and surport such a world.

Originally posted by freakray


what is 'soving'?

"solving"....my bad;)

Originally posted by bk2kmax
Man walking on the Moon. The first story told on this was total BS, it was all propoganda designed to beat the Russians in the space race.

If it was so possible over 30 years ago, then why is it that we haven't put anyone back on the Moon with today's technology that is supposed to be so superior to yesteryear's technology? LOL... Don't say that to Buzz Aldrin. He'll pop you in the face. (http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/)

Originally posted by RaceMySS_454



Licking your elbow :D :rolleyes:

I can lick my elbow...so that isn't impssible...lol ;)

Dick Clark dying.

Storing information other then genetic in DNA

Originally posted by Sean Quinn
Dick Clark dying.



lol :cwn27: :cwn27: :cwn27: :cwn27:

World Peace!
A hydrogen car with 500 HP!

a Manned Mission to Mars
The European Union overtaking the USA as the worlds most powerful economic force
The Collapse of the Japanese economy
The eventual replacement of petrol driven cars with electric/fuel cell/hydrogen cars
The discovery of an Extraterrestrial being
Virtual Reality
A pocket sized Super Computer
The melting of the Polar Ice caps


There is much more, I just can't think of them :bloated:

Originally posted by jay@af
LOL... Don't say that to Buzz Aldrin. He'll pop you in the face. (http://www.csicop.org/articles/20021018-aldrin/) :hehehe: :hehe: :hehehe: :hehe:

Originally posted by bk2kmax
:hehehe: :hehe: :hehehe: :hehe:

Someone should make an 0wned thingy out of that...

One thing currently "impossible" but will happen within the next 100 years, the end to the Israel/Palestinian conflict

Solving world hunger
Solving world peace

Till these two things are done nothing else matters.....


Scott

I wanna see teleportation.

Originally posted by Raging Bull
I wanna see teleportation.
That would be sweet. What about smell-a-vision?

teleportation would be nice............but it better not have any long-term affect

Ooo! I got one

a GOOD import mag

Originally posted by Dorikin
Ooo! I got one

a GOOD import mag


Imports are crap

well some of them.....and if you don't like te magazines they have out why not make your own

that could be a personal goal of the future?:rolleyes:

Originally posted by RaceMySS_454

Imports are crap

Why do virtually all muscle car people spout that stuff out.

I dont like Hondas. IMHO, FF is THE worst motorsports drivetrain, coupled with the fact these cars are designed to be grocery getters and are hella played out.

I like RWD Imports such as the 240SX, AE86, RX7, Supra(old ass version) etc. etc.

Dont get me wrong, Ill take an SVT Cobra, LS1 Trans Am, or any old muscle car(especially Grand Nationals), but I just like imports better..I grew up with them,and thats what I know.

As for the magazine, I need lotsa cash for the inital invesetment, which I dont have...

Originally posted by RaceMySS_454
Imports are crapStereotypes are crap.
Generalizations are crap.
Narrrow-minded people are crap.

Maybe in the next 100 years, people will start thinking for themselves.

Originally posted by jay@af
Stereotypes are crap.
Generalizations are crap.
Narrrow-minded people are crap.

Maybe in the next 100 years, people will start thinking for themselves.


*Waits for someone to spin that into an anti-war message* :rolleyes:

Im not trying to make this sound negative but what it seems liek everyone in my area now, the teenagers(me being one myself) alot infact most of them think imports are better than domestics. I just say ok your never going to solve the war between the two. People have there own opinion and what not. I think after the Fast and Fuorius the import seen exploded. thats fine it doesn't bother me. what bothers me is when some kid come up to me and thinks that buying a honda civic and putting 10 grand into thew motor just to get it to around 400 hp, is the greatest thing!!! that seems to piss me off more than anything else......i see no purpose in that when you can go out and get a camaro or a mustang or any domestic muscle car and have the same amount of hp for cheaper. I know the only imports i like are like the ones you said your skylines and rx7 and what not.

sorry to bring this off thread.

My 2 cents


-RaceMySS_454

Originally posted by RaceMySS_454
Im not trying to make this sound negative but what it seems liek everyone in my area now, the teenagers(me being one myself) alot infact most of them think imports are better than domestics. I just say ok your never going to solve the war between the two. People have there own opinion and what not. I think after the Fast and Fuorius the import seen exploded. thats fine it doesn't bother me. what bothers me is when some kid come up to me and thinks that buying a honda civic and putting 10 grand into thew motor just to get it to around 400 hp, is the greatest thing!!! that seems to piss me off more than anything else......i see no purpose in that when you can go out and get a camaro or a mustang or any domestic muscle car and have the same amount of hp for cheaper. I know the only imports i like are like the ones you said your skylines and rx7 and what not.

sorry to bring this off thread.

My 2 cents


-RaceMySS_454


I hear ya. Ive grown up around Imports. Since F&F all my friends are like "where do you get NAWWSS", what are those neon thingys. ive always been the car guy and now everyone thinks theyre some super 2nr.

I shut them up...some guy said he had AEM Headers and a T4 turbo...:rolleyes:

Originally posted by RaceMySS_454
what bothers me is when some kid come up to me and thinks that buying a honda civic and putting 10 grand into thew motor just to get it to around 400 hp, is the greatest thing!!! that seems to piss me off more than anything else......
-RaceMySS_454

You hate imports cause people think thier cars are better then yours? that seems a bit insecure. I'm not going to argue about import with domestic with you, I'll let my sig take care of that one...

BACK on topic...

Today, it's known to be impossible to travel into the future, but in the next 100 years, we'l be able to travel into the future. You're wondering how the heck that's gonna happen, my teacher told me a while ago that if something moves faster than light, it'll move really slow in reality... so if I'm moving much faster than light, my time is going way slower than YOUR time... which translates into everything going fast for me and you seeing me go slow, and while I"m going slow, so does my age...... this way, everything besides me can go 10 times as fast making me travel into the future. Get it? ;)

I dunno about traveling into the past What has happened has already hapened, I don't think time is reversable, I could be wrong though :confused:

Imports vs domestics is a tired old argument that has been done to death in most of AF's forums already.Drive what suits you,and have the courtesy to respect other peoples' choices.What they like might not be yourr cup of tea,but unless you are buying it for them,there preferences are no less important than yours.

As for the impossible thing that might be possible in 50 years?

I'll go with the idea of Mach 4 air/space comercial flights.

I'll go with the idea of Mach 4 air/space comercial flights

That would be very cool; however it will be over Mach 26 because according to NASA a vehicle must be propelled to this speed just to make it to space. Ronald Regan's administration started working on this in the 80's. They say you would be able to fly from Tokyo to New york in two hours.

http://popularmechanics.com/science/aviation/2001/7/hyper-x/index2.phtml

Originally posted by integra818




BACK on topic...

Today, it's known to be impossible to travel into the future, but in the next 100 years, we'l be able to travel into the future. You're wondering how the heck that's gonna happen, my teacher told me a while ago that if something moves faster than light, it'll move really slow in reality... so if I'm moving much faster than light, my time is going way slower than YOUR time... which translates into everything going fast for me and you seeing me go slow, and while I"m going slow, so does my age...... this way, everything besides me can go 10 times as fast making me travel into the future. Get it? ;)

I dunno about traveling into the past What has happened has already hapened, I don't think time is reversable, I could be wrong though :confused:

I have always been intrested in the time/space stuff. I don't know about the whole going back in time stuff-the idea that if you go back in time and mess with something and it alters the future to a drgree that you or the science that took you in to the past in the first place is now gone is a bit much to swallow. However traveling into the future or past via a worm hole or such could be possible. We are all living in the past/present and future all at the same time. So why not??

Scott

Originally posted by freakray
Jay@AF will finish another model :p And 3 days later:
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t100433.html

:finger:

If we (as a species) actually make it that long:

Some kind of inhaled gas or nanotechnology that will scrub all the pollutants from your lungs (mainly cigarette tar, etc).

A cheap, efficient, environmentally friendly way to dispose/recycle refuse.

Personal technology implants, such as microphones in your lip and tiny speakers in your skull behind your ear that could be used as a telephone, music listening device, voice-activated controls, etc.

Originally posted by ci5ic
If we (as a species) actually make it that long:

Some kind of inhaled gas or nanotechnology that will scrub all the pollutants from your lungs (mainly cigarette tar, etc).

A cheap, efficient, environmentally friendly way to dispose/recycle refuse.

Personal technology implants, such as microphones in your lip and tiny speakers in your skull behind your ear that could be used as a telephone, music listening device, voice-activated controls, etc.

:thinkerg: GENIUS :thinkerg:

Originally posted by ci5ic
If we (as a species) actually make it that long:

Some kind of inhaled gas or nanotechnology that will scrub all the pollutants from your lungs (mainly cigarette tar, etc)....

IF people would just stop smoking, we wouldn't need that... :bloated:

I anticipate brain implants so that people with broken eyes can see via camera...and instead of having a computer monitor it all shows up in virtual reality in your head. Same with audio - thumping bass in your head - but the people with the loud stereos at 2 a.m. will still blast them, as half the reason for a loud stereo is to impress people with how much of an asshole you can be. (Same with revving motorcycles at 5 a.m., and missionaries.)

Also, cars will drive themselves (we already have adaptive cruise and the Nissan Cima in Japan has "lane keep", reads the lane lines and stays inside them), but the worst drivers will still insist on driving themselves around.

Basically I see technology continuing to make our lives easier, accompanied by rampant depression as people find themselves comparatively useless, and assholes finding newer, faster, louder ways to be assholes.

Originally posted by boingo82

Basically I see technology continuing to make our lives easier, accompanied by rampant depression as people find themselves comparatively useless, and assholes finding newer, faster, louder ways to be assholes.

I don't think technology really makes our lives all that easier... certain things yes, like being able to use the internet as a tool and all, but it's like when I was younger and personal computers were about to be a huge thing... people marvled at the fact that the widespread use of computers would result in a gigantic decrease in the amount of paper consumed, when in actuality it resulted in a gigantic INCREASE of paper consumption. I think it's much the same for "making lives easier"... Just makes it more hectic...

Originally posted by ci5ic


I don't think technology really makes our lives all that easier... certain things yes, like being able to use the internet as a tool and all, but it's like when I was younger and personal computers were about to be a huge thing... people marvled at the fact that the widespread use of computers would result in a gigantic decrease in the amount of paper consumed, when in actuality it resulted in a gigantic INCREASE of paper consumption. I think it's much the same for "making lives easier"... Just makes it more hectic...

You've read Vonnegut, and Bradbury (I think you have, anyhow. Think, The Veldt), you should know what I'm talking about. I don't mean easier by leaps and bounds especially compared to just a decade or two ago, but compare to 75 years ago, when clothes and dishes were washed by hand, and physical labor was most of the workforce. Very different place from now. A lot of the problem now is that people don't feel very valuable...such as they go to their jobs, work all day, and for what? The sense of accomplishment is small. Who cares if I don't go bag groceries today, or I don't program code tonight, etc. No one lives or dies because of that. Consequently a lot of people don't have pride in their work. It was a lot different years ago, when the jobs had a more obvious and direct impact on people's lives, on a more local level. No time to type the rest of this, maybe more later.

I'll agree with that... I was mainly writing that from my perspective of a mere 26 years of age, so I didn't fully take everything into account. Haven't really read any Bradbury, but Vonnegut yes.

One thing that WOULD make my life easier is a cat-litter box that really truely cleans itself... Littermaid is worthless, and the only other one I've seen got pretty poor reviews...

Did anyone mention cloning? Alot of people would be agianst it by saying "you're playing God" but others would say... "God would be proud of how his humans achieved this". What do you guys think?

If a cloned human growes up to be like Hitler or Huessin, everybody will blame the cloning thing.... :bloated:

Originally posted by ci5ic
I'll agree with that... I was mainly writing that from my perspective of a mere 26 years of age, so I didn't fully take everything into account. Haven't really read any Bradbury, but Vonnegut yes.

One thing that WOULD make my life easier is a cat-litter box that really truely cleans itself... Littermaid is worthless, and the only other one I've seen got pretty poor reviews...

If you do decide to start reading Bradbury, the two stories I'd recommend VERY highly are Frost and Fire and Fever Dream. They can both be found in the book here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394513355/ref=lib_rd_ss_TC01/104-1694566-2539169?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=13#reader-link
and individually in R is for Rocket (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553119311/qid=1051600802/br=1-3/ref=br_lf_b_3//104-1694566-2539169?v=glance&s=books&n=284598) and Medicine for Melancholy (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553204262/qid=1051600869/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1694566-2539169?v=glance&s=books). Also, if you want to read The Veldt which I referred to earlier, it's included in its entirety on the sample pages from The Illustrated Man. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055327449X/ref=lib_rd_ss_TT01/104-1694566-2539169?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=8#reader-link)

But back on topic - as for the cloning argument, it's hard to say right or wrong from an ethical standpoint, but I can say it's impossible to duplicate people. Same genetics or not, so much is randomized with regards to not only personality, but also appearance, and so much is based on experience that we certainly wouldn't have duplicates running around. I read about a dog they cloned, the original was brown spotted and the clone was black and white, or some such. The fur looked NOTHING the same. On people, moles are completely random, and a clone would have different birthmarks in different places..