What if Human Technology Had Developed in a Different Way?
Currently in our World Technology has developed in such a way that we are over running many regions of our planet, with both environmental pollution and population infestation. Indeed population density has a lot to do with accountability and we have over populated said planet.
What would happen if the human race would reset, kind of like in the Movie "Matrix", would technology develop differently? Would the human race even come to exist? Chances are both the species and the technology would be much different, that makes sense right? Well at least that is what Chris recently asked of the Online Think Tank.
Resetting of humanity is most likely what will happen if a Comet hits the Earth, we go into an Ice Age or some virus mutates faster than humans can evolve to stop it or create vaccines. From looking at the buried Pyramids in many places, well something like that may have happened and the Earth merely recycles. Thus the "putting all our eggs in one basket theory" is of consideration when planning off-world planet colonies.
Now the question comes up, another excellent topic by Chris; How do we know what to look for when we search for extraterrestrial life. If that life grew based on conditions of other worlds, then it would be much different, if it colonized other planets, it may have survived thru periods of total cataclysmic chaos or a "planet reset" wiping out most of its populations, only to grow again with everything changed.
Who is to say that those species, which have survived did just that previously in this dimension? The search for extraterrestrial life is a tough one if those who search are caught up in preconceived notions of what that life may look like. Hawking, Sagan, Drake, Einstein and so many others agree.
In a reset of sorts that Chris describes, surely the technology would develop differently, as the branches of technological and scientific discovery would be different. Who is to say that this has not happened over and over again elsewhere or in our past; "Isaac Asimov - Foundation Series" type scenarios. It makes perfect sense.
Well it appears that Chris, agrees very much with other scientists out there on the subject of searching for extraterrestrial life. The question perhaps is where do you stand on this topic? Are you able to think on this objectively or perhaps do you have a problem with your current religious belief system that disallows such thought? What say you?
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington
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