Yup, looking forward into the future, spreading out to other planets will be essential to the future survival of our species.

I'd love to witness first contact with aliens, or as darth mentioned the colinisation of mars within our lifetime. Sadly, I doubt we have enough time.

Doom and gloom. Even the smartest man on earth can sometimes be quite dumb.

We already learned our lesson. We haven't dropped a nuke in over 60 years.  So why would we in the future?

Oil will run out soon so that will take care of the so call man made global warming threat.

Plenty of safe and environment friendly energy can be gotten from nuclear plants. Just build more. In 30 years we're all be driving in electric cars.

Humans are already close to getting only 2 kids per couple, so overpopulation ain't that big of a threat in the long run. And if we really are getting extremely old (like hundreds of years) we could sterilize people so population doesn't get bigger.

Genetic engineering on plants and animals will provide us with plenty of very awesome and great tasting food for everybody. And gene manipulation in humans can fix lots of negative traits such as agression and hostile behaviour in nasty individuals. Soon medication will be produced that makes us happy and content with only little materials. Medication will be invented to kill all nasty germs.

Comps will be wired to our brains and give us artificial leasure which will stop our cravings for resource hungry entertainment such as sex, sports and travels. Comps don't need much materials. And besides, materials could be recycled and reused in the future.

We won't need to go into space. If we fly far out there the risk of getting discovered and eaten by aliens is probably even higher than the risk of the earth getting hit and destroyed by a gigantic meteor.

All I know is that I need to live to see Mars Colonization occur!

I want to live to the day when we forget about countries and  call ourselves proud citizens of PLANET EARTH!

that day will happen if aliens suddenly come and attack us, it would actually be the best thing which could happen to us.

we need to prepare ourselves *looks at gears of war*

Wow... you've been reading too much Brave New World. Plus humans will definately go into space and colonise other planets, if only just for the heck of it. Plus someday the Sun will explode destroying Earth in the process? What's your solution then?

Doom and gloom. Even the smartest man on earth can sometimes be quite dumb.

We already learned our lesson. We haven't dropped a nuke in over 60 years.  So why would we in the future?

Oil will run out soon so that will take care of the so call man made global warming threat.

Plenty of safe and environment friendly energy can be gotten from nuclear plants. Just build more. In 30 years we're all be driving in electric cars.

Humans are already close to getting only 2 kids per couple, so overpopulation ain't that big of a threat in the long run. And if we really are getting extremely old (like hundreds of years) we could sterilize people so population doesn't get bigger.

Genetic engineering on plants and animals will provide us with plenty of very awesome and great tasting food for everybody. And gene manipulation in humans can fix lots of negative traits such as agression and hostile behaviour in nasty individuals. Soon medication will be produced that makes us happy and content with only little materials. Medication will be invented to kill all nasty germs.

Comps will be wired to our brains and give us artificial leasure which will stop our cravings for resource hungry entertainment such as sex, sports and travels. Comps don't need much materials. And besides, materials could be recycled and reused in the future.

We won't need to go into space. If we fly far out there the risk of getting discovered and eaten by aliens is probably even higher than the risk of the earth getting hit and destroyed by a gigantic meteor.

Or if that New World Order those paranoyd crazy people keep talking about actually happens.

Actually Brave New World is a dystopian novel that did a rather good job compared to the others to predict how the world will evolve. Genetic enhancements (OK the book has eugenics instead of direct genetic modification, but that ideea didn't exist when the book was written, so the author couldn't predict that), medication that "makes you happy and content" were elements presented in that book.

And wile the sun isn't going to explode anytime soon,I don't think that we, as a species, should wait until then to start researching space travel and planet colonisation.

Actually Brave New World is a dystopian novel that did a rather good job compared to the others to predict how the world will evolve. Genetic enhancements (OK the book has eugenics instead of direct genetic modification, but that ideea didn't exist when the book was written, so the author couldn't predict that), medication that "makes you happy and content" were elements presented in that book.

And wile the sun isn't going to explode anytime soon,I don't think that we, as a species, should wait until then to start researching space travel and planet colonisation.