No Tomorrow?
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Space. Did we stop dreaming?
We were promised.
THIS was our future.
As teenagers and young adults we watched cars become monotonous and uninspired. Houses were no longer trying to be the cutting-edge homes of tomorrow and cities grew uglier instead of the shining beacons of an enlightened society.
What happened?
Cool Concept Cars For A Future That Never Happened
We Were Suppose To Take Off On The Highway Of Tomorrow
Compare it what you're driving today.
And what do you think the next generation will be driving tomorrow? Oh wait, probably nothing because we're running out of oil. Our short-sighted society isn't concerned with that either.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"We Stopped Dreaming."
Amazon
Space Was Our Playground
- Vintage Playgrounds
- Compare these amazing playgrounds of the 60s and 70s to the lame playgrounds of today.
Rocket Slides
Does Your Playground Have A Rocket Slide?
We must capture the spirit of tomorrow today.
"We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountain, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
~Winston Churchill
Our Destiny Is In Space
We Have No Tomorrow Without Spaceflight Today
- Spacefaring Nations
- "The United States government temporarily ceased manned space missions in July, 2011 after STS-135."
I have two important reasons why we can't let this be our future:
- 1Lewis and Clark
- 2The Next 100 Years
Why Lewis and Clark Are Important To Our Tomorrow
We Have No Future In Stagnation
We all remember Lewis and Clark. About 200 years ago, they opened up the West to colonization.
Think about that for a minute, 200 years ago all the land between the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean was empty. Aside from a few handfuls of American Indian tribes, there was nothing but vast open spaces.
Now visualize the thousands of people that live in that space today. And visualize again what it will look like in another 100 years. 200 years. Visualize the whole world in 200 years.
Are we willing to either curb world breeding or encourage eugenics for the old and sick--for the whole planet?
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
It's a fact that we will outgrow this world. We MUST expand to the stars.
"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
~Stephen Hawking
The Next 100 Years Are Critical; We May Not Make It
We Can Still Doom Ourselves To No Tomorrow
Type I: Uses all the energy that falls on its planet.
Type II: Uses the energy output of a star and its planets.
Type III: Uses the energy of an entire galaxy, the blackholes, stars, and planets in it.
What are we using for energy? We're using dead plants. We get all our energy from dead plants. We're Type 0.
We May Become Type I In The Next 100 Years
Tomorrow's Destiny Is Today
Do you?
No Tomorrow? Further Reading
- Kardashev Scale
- Wikipedia Article
- Type I civilization: can we make it?
- Forum discussion
- Type 1, 2, & 3 Civilizations
- Physics forum
- http://www.angelfire.com/sd/occultic/civili.html
- An excerpt from the book of Michio Kaku
- Wikipedia of Michio Kaku
- Who is this guy anyway?
"The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological - technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science."
~Stephen Hawking
Technology For The Future Begins Today
We Must Prepare For Tomorrow
Our civilization cannot stay bound to one planet. We cannot stop our inevitable forward progress unless we destroy ourselves. If nothing else, the end of the world will come and our mankind will be snuffed out completely if we are completely earth-bound.
The end of the world is coming. It's a FACT:
Our Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda. They WILL collide in 3 billion years.
Our sun will die in 5 billion years.
In between that time, anything could happen.
Her Sunset
1000 Tomorrows From Right Now
Terraform
Tomorrow Is Now
Worried About Tomorrow?
Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World
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Keep Your Finger On The Pulse of Tomorrow
Phil Plait Will PROBABLY Let You Know If We're Doomed
- Bad Astronomy, the blog
- What's happening today in astronomy!
Be A Part Of Tomorrow RIGHT NOW!
Your Message Will Go Into Space And Come Back Down To Earthlings 50,000 Years From Now!
52,000 AD
The KEO time capsule re-enters the Earth's atmosphere
KEO was a time capsule launched in 2012 and intended to orbit Earth for 50,000 years - the same length of time that had elapsed since early humans began drawing in cave walls.
The project was supported by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as the European Space Agency (ESA) and other institutions.
The public were invited to contribute messages. These were encoded in glass-made, radiation-resistant DVDs, along with instructions to future generations on how to build a DVD reader. Samples of human blood, earth, air and seawater were also placed on board.
The capsule itself is a hollow sphere, 80cm in diameter. The sphere is engraved with a map of Earth and surrounded by an aluminum layer, a thermal layer and several layers of titanium, intertwined with vacuum. The sphere is resistant to cosmic radiation, atmospheric re-entry and space junk impacts.
Placed into orbit 1,800 km high, the satellite's altitude has slowly degraded by a few dozen meters each year. As it finally re-enters the atmosphere, its thermal layer produces a bright, artificial aurora to signal its return.
- Leave your message now
- Every person living on Earth, small, weak, powerful or rich is provided with 4 pages of liberty and equality to pen down his message destined for his faraway great grandchildren.
All the messages received, without undergoing any censorship, will be embarked aboard KEO.
KEO Poll
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
~Carl Sagan
This Century, Today, We Must Get Excited About Space Again
There Is Life Beyond Earth
No Tomorrow?
What do we have today? Seen any space-related commercials lately? Know the names of any astronauts from the last 10 years? 20 years? We need to get back to that whole retro fascination with space and ditch the dark ages mentality about science that has become so trendy.
I hope the art here inspires you to consider the future.
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
~ Carl Sagan
Visit, "3D Impact"
All These Worlds... 2012 Wall Calendar
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Extrasolar Planet 10 Small Poster
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Cloud City Poster
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Jungle Canyon Poster
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Iceberg 1 Poster
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."
~Roy Batty in "Blade Runner"
Visit, "Retropolis Travel, See The World Of Tomorrow"
cards, postcards, coffee mugs and other products all designed to leave you a fond memento of your visit to the Future That Never Was."
Come Visit Kennedy Space Center!
TAM Panel-Our Future in Space
Where do our astronomers and astrophysicists think we'll be tomorrow?
Do they have hope for mankind in space?
Are robots our future?
Are NASA's glory days over forever?
Did Bill Nye kill the ozone layer?
Are Europeans from another world?
- TAM 2011 in Las Vegas
- Phil Plait, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pamela Gay, and Lawrence Krauss talk about our future in space.
Stephen Hawking: Colonize space, or else
In recent times, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has become something of a hawk when it comes to human survival
- "Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space."
- "It does seem slightly pitiful that so many of our great scientific and engineering minds are being wasted on creating fine new ways to pay for your shampoo with your iPhone, rather than on creating machines that can swiftly and safely transport humans to occupy the Planet Yog."
The Future That Never Happened
Tomorrow Never Came
Make Your Own Jetpack Craft Project
Rocketeer!
- Make yourself a Rocketeer Rocket replica from waste residue
- The things you need to hook up, that you would easily find lying around the house are two L pop bottles, two shampoo or conditioner bottles, round plastic dip or spread container, thin cardboard from cereal boxes, paper towel tube and an old purse with brown faux leather straps.
An empty NASA launch pad dreaming of Mars.
What Do You Think?
Is space travel over for the United States?
Can we become a Type I civilization?
Do you have space dreams?
Were you promised a flying car?
Have we reached the tipping point for Type 0?
And ARE Europeans from another world?
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tvyps
Nov 17, 2011 @ 12:32 am | delete
- Heavy stuff! I remember that Orwell and Rod Serling promised us flying cars by the 1960's or 1970's. It was fun to think about as a kid. I always wanted a jet pack but wouldn't want to run out of gas. As far as Hawking is concerned..he is very smart but also very narrow minded to not consider intelligent design. Squid Angel Blessed!
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Cinnamonbite
Nov 17, 2011 @ 7:46 am | delete
- If you had a better education in science, you would clearly understand how, "intelligent design," was debunked years ago. It is nothing more than religious claptrap.
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aesta1
Nov 6, 2011 @ 3:02 am | delete
- When we visited the Kennedy Center, I was like a child enjoying everything. I have better hopes for tomorrow and I hope that mainstream space travel will happen in our lifetime.
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ZCademy
Nov 2, 2011 @ 2:45 pm | delete
- Great lens, beautiful art, and something important to say ...
I have an "I still want my flying car" shirt from Retropolis.
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riff999
Oct 26, 2011 @ 9:34 pm | delete
- Awesome topic, great read. Blessed.
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AlleyCatLane
Oct 7, 2011 @ 8:50 pm | delete
- Thought provoking article. Love the art work too.
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mylittleeden Oct 6, 2011 @ 10:10 pm | delete
- Love the artwork in this lens
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totalhealth Oct 5, 2011 @ 3:02 pm | delete
- Unless we start now, our planet could reach its tipping point sooner than we are expecting. we could start by helping our planet become sustainable to support life until we can reach type 1 civilization. nothing is impossible...
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moonlitta
Oct 4, 2011 @ 6:59 am | delete
- Hope you never stop dreamin':) Angel Blessed!
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anilsaini
Oct 4, 2011 @ 6:31 am | delete
- nice lens
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~ Albert Einstein
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