Becoming ET?
2007-03-15 08:53:03 · 10 answers · asked by sixsgm 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We would become dinosaur in Jurassic park, back to square one!
2007-03-16 11:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
500 years is far too short for major natural evolutionary change.
On the other hand, the rate of technological growth has increased dramatically in the past 500 years. Human knowledge used to double every century. From 1900 to 1930 it doubled again. From 1930 to 1940 it doubled, and every decade since. Scientists figure the sum total of human knowledge doubled again between 2000 and 2004. We see the doubling time shrinking away.
If this rate keeps up, there will be fantastic changes within just a few decades. I expect we may begin reengineering our own species. I know I would prefer lots of improvements. Better vision, hearing, and smell. I'd like my sight extended into the infrared and ultraviolet. I'd also like memory enhancements. And to be able to survive on oxygen levels as low as bats can. Longevity is also an issue.
By 2100 the average life span may well exceed 120 years (which is about maximum now). And by 2200 we might remove the upper limit altogether. Artificial intelligence will then jerk the rate of technological growth. We think the pace is dizzying now? It isn't fast enough. Product life cycles will be measured in hours instead of years. Design to production will shrink from months to minutes. The world will grow passing strange.
2007-03-15 09:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well i doubt that we will visit another planet in 500 years. The only way we could be ET is if we found another civilization and visited them, us being the alien, vice versa if they visited us. However, we will be insanely technologically advanced. Our technology might even kill us. But regardless, our radio telescopes might pick up messages from ET in a 500 year span.
2007-03-15 09:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by Adam B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
each and every technology has believed that the international could end interior its lifetime. whilst the pessimism is comprehensible, issues have purely been getting extra appropriate interior the final hundred years or so, the adaptation is that technologies has gotten to a factor the place we can know each and every thing undesirable that occurs interior the international. human beings stay longer than ever and purely a tiny fraction of a % of human deaths are from violence. affliction and starvation are liable for many folk of deaths, however the suitable minds of the international are working consistently, and making progression, at removing those. Human's tend to have the self upkeep instincts to end wanting annihilation, we ought to get on the edge of the factor, yet I doubt that we are going to ever pass over it.
2016-09-30 23:35:02 · answer #4 · answered by heusel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What happened to people who lived 500 years ago? You die some are born, civilisations get destroyed, new civilsations get born and the cycle continues until God will one day come and end it all.
2007-03-15 09:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by worldcomingtoanend 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is a theory about about apes evolving into man and man evolving into aliens(et) so i guess so, they look so much like us
2007-03-15 14:11:53 · answer #6 · answered by westafrocherokee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We may evolve into something else or as my professor says go back into the trees.
2007-03-15 09:01:59 · answer #7 · answered by purplejadedragon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probley become extinct.
2007-03-15 09:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
become super intelligent nuts!
2007-03-15 13:14:37 · answer #9 · answered by lovealice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing?
2007-03-15 09:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋