In 1000 years you'll be long forgotten about

The King of Moo · 09-08-2011 11:28AM

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Ya never know, the data on the boards servers might be cached and still be around then.
You might be remembered for starting stupid threads.

I'd love if boards was future archaeologists' only source of information about the early 21st century.

"Mating rituals were elaborate, and often involved two prospective mates dousing each other in urine.

Sexual mores were also more relaxed than now, with engaging in intercourse with peers' mothers a popular pastime.

We also believe that photography was invented around this time and enjoyed popular use, as apparently if one entered a room with an interesting story or professing to be an attractive female, they would be ejected from the room without photographic proof.

This was also a dangerous time though, with roving gangs of violent mutants with exotic names and elaborate dress codes such as "The Travellers," "The Skangers," "The Immigrants" and "The Roma" (possibly a remnant of the Roman Empire). It is believed that the recently discovered film-tape The Warriors offers a documentary record of Dublin at this time.

The most surprising find was how different people looked at the time, possibly due to cosmetic surgical alteration, as seen in this photoplate, with strangely pale and oval-shaped heads and blank, staring eyes..."

Juicyfruit · 09-08-2011 11:29AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Maybe not. It's probable that if we continue on our research road and aren't buggered up by wars or luddites we will get to a point where we fully understand aging and death and will be able to stave it off for longer and likely reverse it. It is after all an engineering problem albeit a very complex one. There will come a point where we as a species will become essentially immortal or very very very long lived. This could happen in the next 100 years. So it's possible that a baby born today may live just long enough to be able to avail of this technology and live for longer and the longer they live the longer they will live as newer and newer methods come along. This may even be the case with some people reading this. A 20 year old today should live to around 80, so in 2071 a lot of this tech could be on stream. So maybe for the first time in human history, if you live long enough you may live long enough to live for a very very long time.

Possible, but highly unlikely.

If everyone lived forever and more and more people were born, the world would become terribly overcrowded

peterk675 · 09-08-2011 11:59AM

It does bother me in a way . The fact that we work or do what we do all our lives to just be gone , and probly never to even be remembered again (until the family die out) , just like that :mad:

09-08-2011 12:04PM

We may die but our posts will live on.

The King of Moo · 09-08-2011 12:05PM

I think what gets to me more is the thought that we as a species will die out, and that everything that has been achieved in the name of humanity will be lost or left to slowly disintegrate with no-one around to bear witness to them.

That's why I think in the long run we need to get out into space and colonise other planets, before either the Sun or Earth fails us.

Even if somewhere in the far distant future our descendants aren't recognisably human, and even though we don't have the best track record as a species, we have too much potential greatness which occasionally shines through for us to be completely forgotten.

iamstop · 09-08-2011 12:27PM

Time for the OP to bury a time capsule me thinks.

zyxwvu · 09-08-2011 12:41PM

Every so often I use a few sources of information to give me a bit of perspective on the whole "being a human on earth" thing:

http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Apr/msg00410.html
- if the history of the earth is a 24 hour clock, life began (probably as self-replicating organic molecules) at about 4:10am, multi-cellular organisms 1:02pm,land-dwelling plants 9:31pm, land-dwelling animals 9:46pm, common-ancestor of humans with apes 11:57pm, oldest human civilisations 11:59:59.9 (one tenth of a second before midnight).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I&feature=related
- lots of videos like this on YouTube which try to show how insignificant earth is, in a way humans can get their head around.

I also read about ancient history and prehistory on Wikipedia and in books the odd time, just to kind of get my head around how we got to where we are, from being pure hunter-gatherers who didn't possess behavioural modernity. I like to fill in the gaps of the last few thousand years so to speak! You find out some interesting stuff. Last week I learned that humans were probably reduced to a very small number of breeding pairs (eg. 1000 to 10000) about 70,000 years ago as a result of a massive volcanic eruption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

1000 years isn't that long op, but we will of course all be forgotten about. ah well!

SV · 09-08-2011 12:45PM

Pft, speak for yourself.

CrazyRabbit · 09-08-2011 12:49PM

My posts on boards are my legacy. It'll be around in a 1000 years...no doubt.

amen · 09-08-2011 12:50PM

not only will i be remembered but i will still be alive!!!!

me too. Lets pick a city that hopefully will be still there in 1,000 years and have a drink!

sheesh · 09-08-2011 12:52PM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Ponder this and see how you feel.

It's comforting.

Speaking of the future I would love to do some sort of time capsule thing, no, not some pictures of my family and letters to the future telling them to look after the rain forest but a proper one like the rosetta stone a large piece of text in english spanish chinese and swahili (I think the continent of africa is due a good turn any epoc now)

Tabnabs · 09-08-2011 12:56PM

Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great dead

The Hávamál

brummytom · 09-08-2011 01:30PM

TheZohan wrote: »

On the plus side brummytom will have lost his virginity by then.

God, you're optimistic

Trhiggy83 · 09-08-2011 01:44PM

Remember the past,Enjoy the present and make plans for the future....Dont think 100 years ahead as there is no point

Thats all Kids

Guill · 09-08-2011 01:47PM

Hitler will be remembered.

<takes notes>

Conor108 · 09-08-2011 02:21PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I think what gets to me more is the thought that we as a species will die out, and that everything that has been achieved in the name of humanity will be lost or left to slowly disintegrate with no-one around to bear witness to them.

That's why I think in the long run we need to get out into space and colonise other planets, before either the Sun or Earth fails us.

Even if somewhere in the far distant future our descendants aren't recognisably human, and even though we don't have the best track record as a species, we have too much potential greatness which occasionally shines through for us to be completely forgotten.

+1