Anthony Joshua

[JimJim2009]

At present technology, it would take 50,000 years to reach alpha proxima, our closest stars. There's obviously only a slim chance that there will be life at our nearest star system

There's a limit to how fast any craft travelling with humans can accellerate, as anything more than 10G force is enough to kill a human passenger. So unless we are able to either build 'generation ships' with large breeding human populations, that spend hundreds of thousands of years travelling between star systems, in the hope of finding other planets which sustain life, or we are able to develop technology which can transport both ships and living passnegers to the fujrther reaches of the universe, we're pretty much stuck where we are.

The other option is that humans are able to download their conscious minds onto some form of external chip or computer, which can then store the brain patterns, and recreate their bodies elsewhere. Sounds fanficul I know, but it's probably a lot more likely than finding warp drives which can transport both machines and their human passengers across the universe at faster than light speeds.

It seems likely that lifeforms in the universe are going to form along similar patterns, as there are certain precursors that have to be present for life to form (as far as we can tell of course) - gravity that is not too crushing, the presence of liquid water, a climate which is not too violent in it's extremes, and to be close, but not too close to a star. Given those conditions, there will of course be variance, but the patterns are likely to be familiar.

It seems very arrogant to assume that intelligence is anything more than a natural byproduct of evolution, and therefore it will be present on any planet which is able to support life long enough to allow evolutionary forces to develop long enough,

With the vast distances between planets however, it's quite possible that lifeforms will simply never find one another.

It does beg the question, would they even bother visiting Earth?
If they had spent centuries developing inter-stellar travel what interest would they have in visiting a planet full of primitive lifeforms?

Its because our women are fitter. Theirs look downright horrible.

[jamesmcdonnell]

At present technology, it would take 50,000 years to reach alpha proxima, our closest stars. There's obviously only a slim chance that there will be life at our nearest star system

There's a limit to how fast any craft travelling with humans can accellerate, as anything more than 10G force is enough to kill a human passenger. So unless we are able to either build 'generation ships' with large breeding human populations, that spend hundreds of thousands of years travelling between star systems, in the hope of finding other planets which sustain life, or we are able to develop technology which can transport both ships and living passnegers to the fujrther reaches of the universe, we're pretty much stuck where we are.

The other option is that humans are able to download their conscious minds onto some form of external chip or computer, which can then store the brain patterns, and recreate their bodies elsewhere. Sounds fanficul I know, but it's probably a lot more likely than finding warp drives which can transport both machines and their human passengers across the universe at faster than light speeds.

It seems likely that lifeforms in the universe are going to form along similar patterns, as there are certain precursors that have to be present for life to form (as far as we can tell of course) - gravity that is not too crushing, the presence of liquid water, a climate which is not too violent in it's extremes, and to be close, but not too close to a star. Given those conditions, there will of course be variance, but the patterns are likely to be familiar.

It seems very arrogant to assume that intelligence is anything more than a natural byproduct of evolution, and therefore it will be present on any planet which is able to support life long enough to allow evolutionary forces to develop long enough,

With the vast distances between planets however, it's quite possible that lifeforms will simply never find one another.

It does beg the question, would they even bother visiting Earth?
If they had spent centuries developing inter-stellar travel what interest would they have in visiting a planet full of primitive lifeforms?

Technology is advancing so fast that we will most likely have a colony on mars in the next 15-20 years, virgin galactic will be doing day trips to space in the next 2 years, and with the development of things like the proposed space elevator we are going to be flying around to solar system exploring as the norm certainly before the century is out.
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Its only a matter of time before we develop some type of new energy system to fuel space flight and this new graphene material is just the start of new super materials that will help the human race leap forward in its advancement.

The ska telescope is going to come up with some results that will challenge our understanding of or universe thats for sure its going to be 50 times stronger than hubble and compute what our current telescopes can in an entire year in just 4 hours.

The next 20 years is going to be really exciting, you know big things are happening when the UK is building a space hub and some boffins managed to put a wi-fi hot spot on the moon the other month.

The thing is, no matter what energy system you use, if you are going to transport living things, you just cannot accelerate them quickly enough to get them anywhere meaningful in a single lifepan.

Of course, it's more than possible that we will soon have the technology to create beings that don't die of natural causes, but then that raises other questions. How do you stop them going mad with the boredom of living for 50,000 years? People get bored with even the variety of things on offer in a regular lifespan, so how do you cope with a lifetime 500 times longer?

One thing discussed has been sending non-organic lifeforms into space, effectively artifical entities, created from nanotechnology - perhaps in the end humans will become entirely redundant, and they will colonise the universe through proxy.

It's all going to get very strange, very quickly in the next 100 years, I think that life will be almost unrecognisable, at least for a certain class of people who have the money to enjoy the benefits of the latest nanotechnology and gene transformation. There will be people who are effectively superhuman, and enjoy much longer healthier lifespans.

Pretty soon, it's going to be cheaper and easier to have machines doing pretty much all the menial labour currently done by humans - at that point, everything is going to change drastically, even skilled labour may become redundant, as we have machines which are able to out-think humans too, even in creative fields. It cannot be long until we have artifical thought which is indistinguishable from the work of the human mind.

It's actually making my brain hurt thinking about this. Shame I probably won't live long enough to see any of it.

[reggaereggae]

At present technology, it would take 50,000 years to reach alpha proxima, our closest stars. There's obviously only a slim chance that there will be life at our nearest star system

There's a limit to how fast any craft travelling with humans can accellerate, as anything more than 10G force is enough to kill a human passenger. So unless we are able to either build 'generation ships' with large breeding human populations, that spend hundreds of thousands of years travelling between star systems, in the hope of finding other planets which sustain life, or we are able to develop technology which can transport both ships and living passnegers to the fujrther reaches of the universe, we're pretty much stuck where we are.

The other option is that humans are able to download their conscious minds onto some form of external chip or computer, which can then store the brain patterns, and recreate their bodies elsewhere. Sounds fanficul I know, but it's probably a lot more likely than finding warp drives which can transport both machines and their human passengers across the universe at faster than light speeds.

It seems likely that lifeforms in the universe are going to form along similar patterns, as there are certain precursors that have to be present for life to form (as far as we can tell of course) - gravity that is not too crushing, the presence of liquid water, a climate which is not too violent in it's extremes, and to be close, but not too close to a star. Given those conditions, there will of course be variance, but the patterns are likely to be familiar.

It seems very arrogant to assume that intelligence is anything more than a natural byproduct of evolution, and therefore it will be present on any planet which is able to support life long enough to allow evolutionary forces to develop long enough,

With the vast distances between planets however, it's quite possible that lifeforms will simply never find one another.

So you don't believe in Allah?

[Broomhall]

At present technology, it would take 50,000 years to reach alpha proxima, our closest stars. There's obviously only a slim chance that there will be life at our nearest star system

There's a limit to how fast any craft travelling with humans can accellerate, as anything more than 10G force is enough to kill a human passenger. So unless we are able to either build 'generation ships' with large breeding human populations, that spend hundreds of thousands of years travelling between star systems, in the hope of finding other planets which sustain life, or we are able to develop technology which can transport both ships and living passnegers to the fujrther reaches of the universe, we're pretty much stuck where we are.

The other option is that humans are able to download their conscious minds onto some form of external chip or computer, which can then store the brain patterns, and recreate their bodies elsewhere. Sounds fanficul I know, but it's probably a lot more likely than finding warp drives which can transport both machines and their human passengers across the universe at faster than light speeds.

It seems likely that lifeforms in the universe are going to form along similar patterns, as there are certain precursors that have to be present for life to form (as far as we can tell of course) - gravity that is not too crushing, the presence of liquid water, a climate which is not too violent in it's extremes, and to be close, but not too close to a star. Given those conditions, there will of course be variance, but the patterns are likely to be familiar.

It seems very arrogant to assume that intelligence is anything more than a natural byproduct of evolution, and therefore it will be present on any planet which is able to support life long enough to allow evolutionary forces to develop long enough,

With the vast distances between planets however, it's quite possible that lifeforms will simply never find one another.

It does beg the question, would they even bother visiting Earth?
If they had spent centuries developing inter-stellar travel what interest would they have in visiting a planet full of primitive lifeforms?

Technology is advancing so fast that we will most likely have a colony on mars in the next 15-20 years, virgin galactic will be doing day trips to space in the next 2 years, and with the development of things like the proposed space elevator we are going to be flying around to solar system exploring as the norm certainly before the century is out.

Its only a matter of time before we develop some type of new energy system to fuel space flight and this new graphene material is just the start of new super materials that will help the human race leap forward in its advancement.

The ska telescope is going to come up with some results that will challenge our understanding of or universe thats for sure its going to be 50 times stronger than hubble and compute what our current telescopes can in an entire year in just 4 hours.

The next 20 years is going to be really exciting, you know big things are happening when the UK is building a space hub and some boffins managed to put a wi-fi hot spot on the moon the other month.

This is why I drink and smell of piss

[Tuan_Jim]

The cosmic conversations throughout this thread have been embarrassing to read.

Please all of you close your laptops and read a book.

[Cholo_cws]

Don't know what's happened here. Did somebody mention Joshua as a future star or looking out of this world?

[jamesmcdonnell]

The cosmic conversations throughout this thread have been embarrassing to read.

Please all of you close your laptops and read a book.

This may surprise you, but much of what has been written here, has been written in books. There's people called scientists, who write papers about this thing called science. What we're talking about is conjecture, nobody said it's fact. If it embarrasses you, then perhaps you should offer us your prescient observations of possible future developments.

[lefty]

It does beg the question, would they even bother visiting Earth?
If they had spent centuries developing inter-stellar travel what interest would they have in visiting a planet full of primitive lifeforms?

Technology is advancing so fast that we will most likely have a colony on mars in the next 15-20 years, virgin galactic will be doing day trips to space in the next 2 years, and with the development of things like the proposed space elevator we are going to be flying around to solar system exploring as the norm certainly before the century is out.

Its only a matter of time before we develop some type of new energy system to fuel space flight and this new graphene material is just the start of new super materials that will help the human race leap forward in its advancement.

The ska telescope is going to come up with some results that will challenge our understanding of or universe thats for sure its going to be 50 times stronger than hubble and compute what our current telescopes can in an entire year in just 4 hours.

The next 20 years is going to be really exciting, you know big things are happening when the UK is building a space hub and some boffins managed to put a wi-fi hot spot on the moon the other month.

This is why I drink and smell of piss

Im starting to wonder if you have a drink and piss fetish

[reggaereggae]

Without Allah, you're all going to the hellfire

[Broomhall]

Without Allah, you're all going to the hellfire

If there is a park bench there and some special brew lets go for it.

[jamesmcdonnell]

At present technology, it would take 50,000 years to reach alpha proxima, our closest stars. There's obviously only a slim chance that there will be life at our nearest star system

There's a limit to how fast any craft travelling with humans can accellerate, as anything more than 10G force is enough to kill a human passenger. So unless we are able to either build 'generation ships' with large breeding human populations, that spend hundreds of thousands of years travelling between star systems, in the hope of finding other planets which sustain life, or we are able to develop technology which can transport both ships and living passnegers to the fujrther reaches of the universe, we're pretty much stuck where we are.

The other option is that humans are able to download their conscious minds onto some form of external chip or computer, which can then store the brain patterns, and recreate their bodies elsewhere. Sounds fanficul I know, but it's probably a lot more likely than finding warp drives which can transport both machines and their human passengers across the universe at faster than light speeds.

It seems likely that lifeforms in the universe are going to form along similar patterns, as there are certain precursors that have to be present for life to form (as far as we can tell of course) - gravity that is not too crushing, the presence of liquid water, a climate which is not too violent in it's extremes, and to be close, but not too close to a star. Given those conditions, there will of course be variance, but the patterns are likely to be familiar.

It seems very arrogant to assume that intelligence is anything more than a natural byproduct of evolution, and therefore it will be present on any planet which is able to support life long enough to allow evolutionary forces to develop long enough,

With the vast distances between planets however, it's quite possible that lifeforms will simply never find one another.

It does beg the question, would they even bother visiting Earth?
If they had spent centuries developing inter-stellar travel what interest would they have in visiting a planet full of primitive lifeforms?

Its because our women are fitter. Theirs look downright horrible.

I hear that in Rigel-5 the women have three tits......

....but they also all look like Anne Widdecombe, but not as fit.

[Bard of Boxrec]

Can someone explain to me what on earth the commentators were on about saying Joshua hit Airich when he was down? The guy's gloves hadn't touched the floor....and the ref steps in only as he's throwing the final punch.

[BillyTKid]

You star watchers need to watch the movie Arena, it used to be one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. This is the description from Wiki:

Arena is an American science fiction film directed by Peter Manoogian and starring Paul Satterfield and Claudia Christian. Set in 4038, Satterfield plays Steve Armstrong, the first human in 50 years to compete in the intergalactic boxing sport called simply "The Arena".