How do you picture earth and human's in 2039

[liveinmybubble]

Humanity has done so much to the earth we pollute with our cars chemical factorys we never replace what we take or at least try to make up for it. Years from now maybe even decades I picture the earth being a waste land earth quakes will occur rapidy tsunami's and storms.

We as humans do so much to this planet and it's life, we kill the animals and eat them and complain when mad cow disease or chicken flu arrives, we cut into the earth pulling oil out and later tsunami's hit and eath quakes we're causing our own bitter demise.

So how do you see earth in the year 2039, do you think the damage done can ever be repaired,should trash be sent into outter space to better our own planet or do we deserve to go down with our ignorance? Tell me what you think.

[Sojiro47]

Well, what do you know. A thread about the future. I don't think that mankind will be to good in 2039. The average life span of a man will probably be at least 5 years less than todays. I don't think that we'll be in a good codition just because we are the future.

Also, I'm betting that there will be no robots or flying cars. But there will pobably be cell-phones the size of fingernails.

[Fyxe]

[size=1][color=slategray]I think we'll be living on Pluto in small, floating igloo huts and teaching our children the way of the Daedra and Necromancy.

Oh, don't forget the daily sacrifices so we don't over populate.[/color][/size]

[Charles]

Eh, the date you picked is far too soon. The year 2039 is not the distant future or anything. Generally speaking, things probably will not be [I]too[/I] different.

[Aberinkula]

Actually the earthquakes were caused by a tectonic shift. The plates of india and africa were rubbing together. So much in fact that the plates couldn't take it. A mountain line grew huge. Traveling over 500 miles twice the speed of a bullet. Thus wter was pucshede away. As the water traveled pressure played it's role. The waves grew so large that they were classified as a tsunami. So it was NOT global warming that caused it. It was earth popping a pimple. So to speak.

But anyway, I believe that we will have made a subsitute to power. They already created lightbulbs that last 4 to 6 years.Plus they save emissions. Which also means that it causes less heat. Thus protecting us fdrom GLOBAL WARMING!! plus the bulbs save energy. Studies prove that if every home in America had them that would also keep us from the threat. Plus they are making corn into a gasoline substitute. It turns into ethanol at high temperatures.

But to the point I think the world will be 20% better by 2039. I doubt that we humans will all be living in slums with nothing but loinclothes on. technology will enhance for the better. All people worry about most of their lives is "Will I die tommorow?" Don't worry about that! If we only worry it will only make it worse.
We humans have survived so long. Why give up?

But otherwise I do't think robots will be all the rage. Hover cars will only be signs in laboratories that say "Project soon to come". We might though have ROBO MAIDS!
Who the hell knows! maybe we will have cancer-fighting nanobots in our blood that will allow us to tell TIME.

The info on the tsunami was from Discovory channel. the lightbulb thing was from the Today Show, and the corn into gas was from TFK (Time for Kids).

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=trebuchet ms]Well, they're saying that the Arctic will seasonally melt and freeze by the year 2050. So let's hope we either find a way to reverse this by 2039 or we're on some other planet by then. Waterworld could come sooner than you know it. :(

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Still, this will be another one of those things where humanity decides "oh, I'll do it later" and then it'll be too late.

Also, I hope we have more cures for sicknesses deemed uncurable, cancer or otherwise. Other than that, as stated, it can't be radically different.[/font]

[Box Hoy]

Hmm, I doubt we'll allow ourselves to be destroyed. The major governments would begin fighting over land before they let their nations be swallowed water.
I think we'll expereince some sort of full scale war by than and it will end up reshaping the way we make decisions and our relations with other nations.

I think right around that time or maybe in the mid 20's we'll experience the third coming of the emo fad, as it was originally created in the 80's so there's a twenty year gap.

It's very slim but I think by than we'll begin heading back to the moon as well.

[Delta]

[COLOR=#656446][quote name='Split Keyblader']Actually the earthquakes were caused by a tectonic shift. The plates of india and africa were rubbing together. So much in fact that the plates couldn't take it...[/quote]Basically correct, but I think it the hypocenter was traced somewhere near/on the boundary of the Eurasian and Australian plates, where AP's subducting under a region we call Sundaland. A lot of stress was removed in the boundary during the Boxing Day earthquake, so it's possible that it won't act up again anytime soon. Then again, maybe it was only a partial release and the region'll probably feel a series of earthquakes in the near future. In 2039, perhaps?

In any case, it's beyond human control. We mustn't invoke environmental possibilism in the face of plate tectonics. Hehe.

[QUOTE=RiflesAtRecess][font=trebuchet ms]Waterworld could come sooner than you know it. :(
[/font][/QUOTE]Suddenly, the odds of seeing Mel Gibson look-alikes in this watery part of the world just got better. :)

[b][u]Sea-level Rise:[/u][/b] One tell-tale sign of sea-level rise is, yes that's right, flooding of coastal areas. They say global warming's the main cause, and that's why coastal areas are being, ah, retaken by the sea. Heck, when Al Gore came here to preach against it, he said it's the reason why water in Manila Bay here in the Philippines rose at most few centimeters this past century (this is wrong. computations show that only 5 millimeters of sea-level rise can be attributed to global warming).

[b](Land) subsidence[/b] is a stronger contributing factor. Think of it as "land-level fall". Compaction of semi-consolidated land because of 1) pressure from overlying man-made structures; and 2) too much water being drawn out of the ground compound and hastens subsidence. This satisfactorily accounts for the centimeters of sea-level rise here in Manila Bay and the flooding of settlements in the Mississippi and Ganges River Deltas. And hey, look! We can blame ourselves for this! Awright!

[u][b]Global Warming:[/b][/u] See Milankovitch cycles for mathematical and empirical proof that warming at this stage of the earth's life is normal.

[u][b]2039:[/b][/u] Ghost in the Shell. Most definitely. Thermoptic camouflage has already been developed in 2002 and I'd give nanomachines twenty more years before they'll be found inside everyone. Also, mecha![quote name='Box Hoy']I think right around that time or maybe in the mid 20's we'll experience the third coming of the emo fad, as it was originally created in the 80's so there's a twenty year gap.[/quote]Seconded.[/color]

[Sara]

[quote name='RiflesAtRecess][font=trebuchet ms']Well, they're saying that the Arctic will seasonally melt and freeze by the year 2050. So let's hope we either find a way to reverse this by 2039 or we're on some other planet by then. Waterworld could come sooner than you know it. :([/font][/quote][color=#b0000b][size=1]Even if the polar caps melted, the resulting water wouldn't flood the entire world. Lowlying coastal areas would be lost, and the climate of the rest of the world would obviously be majorly affected, but most of the landmasses wouldn't be [i]underwater[/i]. I'm just saying.[/color][/size]

[Papa Smurf]

[quote name='Sara][color=#b0000b][size=1]Even if the polar caps melted, the resulting water wouldn't flood the entire world. Lowlying coastal areas would be lost, and the climate of the rest of the world would obviously be majorly affected, but most of the landmasses wouldn't be [i]underwater[/i]. I'm just saying.[/size'][/color][/quote]
Plus, Kevin Costner is much too old to save humanity these days, so it's just as well. I think Dennis Hopper has kicked his thirst for world domination down a few gears, too. So we've got nothing to worry about in a Waterworld scenario. ^_^

I'm with Charles on this one. 25 years in the future is much too soon. 150 years? Now we're talking. Those are the types of timeframes when technology really has a chance to develop. Certainly things have advanced pretty rapidly in 25 years, but I see society hitting a sort of plateau presently.

The next big scientific developments will relate to biotechnology, I'd imagine, and I wouldn't expect those developments before at least 70-100 years from now.

[2010DigitalBoy]

In 33 years? Well, of course noramally I think I'd say well all be dead or ruled by the forces of evil, or maybe we'll be just as we've been for all time, or whatever. Basically, my answer is that I'm not worried about what humanity or the world will be like, I just want it to roll around this way and I'll deal with what happens.

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][quote name='liveinmybubble]Humanity has done so much to the earth we pollute with our cars chemical factorys we never replace what we take or at least try to make up for it. Years from now maybe even decades I picture the earth being a waste land earth quakes will occur rapidy tsunami's and storms.[/QUOTE]The only way I see the Earth becoming a wasteland in short a short time frame is if we somehow go nuts and start nuking each other in an all out third world war. And even then that?s not going to end up with the plant having earthquakes and tsunami?s all the time. Those two things are largely unaffected by what little technical knowledge we have today. [QUOTE=liveinmybubble']So how do you see earth in the year 2039, do you think the damage done can ever be repaired,should trash be sent into outter space to better our own planet or do we deserve to go down with our ignorance? Tell me what you think.[/quote]Unless we have a huge world war like I already mentioned, I don?t see all that much change in short a short time span. There will have been some advances in technology, but nothing on a huge scale. Too much greed among corporations suppressing new technology to keep themselves in business, but I digress.

As for the damage, I think there really isn?t a way to repair what is already done. It can be reduced and slowed down, but humans are very destructive, our very homes and cities destroyed what was already there in order to be built. Sending trash into outer space won?t change that. Though it might make things seem a little cleaner for a little while, though that?s really just an illusion as currently the expense of actually putting trash out into space makes something like that a waste of money. We?d be better off spending it in building a means to actually live in space or on the moon.

In the end, unless we smarten up, humanity might die off and the Earth, provided it is not at the end of it?s own natural cycle will simply go on and it will change as much as possible to account for humans being gone. It would be interesting to see what happened say 200 years or more into the future, even better, say several thousand years. But alas I will not live that long. [/COLOR]

[Guest Dogwaffle]

it will be exactly the same as it is now, except with more anime, virtually realistic computer graphics, smaller phones, new ddr machines.... that and the fact that google will rule the world, and I will rule google :animeknow

[Box Hoy]

[quote name='Dogwaffle']it will be exactly the same as it is now, except with more anime, virtually realistic computer graphics, smaller phones, new ddr machines.... that and the fact that google will rule the world, and I will rule google :animeknow[/quote]

Yeah, that's true. Google is definetly on the way to conquering everything that is humanity.
I relaly doubt we need to worry about Mr. Lockbox (aka Al Gore) and his crazy rantings about the global warming. By the time anything really can affect us we'll have changed drastically and it won't be able to affect us.

[Shi no Tenshi]

In the year 2039 I'll be 52, so I'll be filthy rich by then. And polyandry will be legal by then so I'll have many beautiful boy toys, and a nice modern Bugatti to accompany each of them. I will own most of the Carribean islands and Michael Moore will be my aging manservant for being such a fat politically-centred moron (planning he doesn't die from a major heart attack before then).

Oh yeah, and people will be making ytmnd's about me when I'm the first to travel first class in Virgin and Google's collaboration project, the teleportation device.

The future's bright.

[TheShinje]

[color=crimson] Planet earth will be much the same as it is now, barring any "Day After Tomorrow" style global warming accelerations, the full effects of the greenhouse effect will not be seen for another 50 years at least. Sunrise, sunset, earth keeps spinning round and round.

Humans will still be fretting over petty differences, and blowing each other up in the name of a god or two. There might be a progression away from such silliness, but I doubt we will see an end to it by 2039, remembering that man's violence to man stems back to when our ancestors clubbed each other over those juicy mammoth steaks.

2039: same shirt, different day.[/color]

[Raiyuu]

[quote name='Box Hoy]By the time [i]Global Warming[/i'] really can affect us we'll have changed drastically and it won't be able to affect us.[/quote][font=trebuchet ms]You're suggesting we're going to [i]evolve[/i] by the time global warming becomes a worldwide crisis?

That's the craziest excuse for environmental apathy I've yet heard.[/font]

[Horendithas]

[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]The date you choose isn?t far enough to really be considered the future in that respect. I might seem like a long time to you, but considering the timeframe of the planet, it?s less than say a second out of a single day. So other than some technological advances, unless we do as SunfallE suggested and have a third world war where we go nuts killing each other, I really don?t see much in the way of change happening in the next thirty or so years. Other than the more relevant one, at least to me, of being an old lady.

It doesn?t hurt to be concerned about such things though, otherwise our great, great, great and then some grandchildren will have to attempt to clean up the mess we left behind for them. It?s not that easy though. It?s one thing to say, why don?t you recycle or do other things, when your local government for the most part is not interested in such things since they see little to no profit in such things. Though I suppose you can do your part by commuting when possible, using light bulbs that take less energy, conserving water, etc. If nothing else, at least you will know you tried.[/COLOR]