What will be the next big thing to change human history?

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Rusty Bucket

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I guess the invention of space was a pretty big deal.

On a more serious note, me. I'm that awesome.
 

Fulax

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Axeli said:
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Fulax said:
World War III, started by Israel/Iran/Pakistan -> Nuclear war -> Most of humanity dies.
yeah sure go for the obvious answers, but most people would like to think nuclear war aint gonna happen
I'm not sure exactly how nuclear war in the middle east would trigger a global one. It's not like world leaders automatically start running amok with ICBMs the moment one nation fires a nuke.
The US would probably help Israel if they were attacked by Iran, whether they started it or no, and the UK would obviously help the US. Then the rest of the muslim world would see it as a war on Islam so they'd join in.
 

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delta4062 said:
Zombies....you heard it from me first the apocalypse is coming
RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!
"War with North Korea. It sounds bad, but that's the most likely thing to happen, in which case we're all fucked."
Then the US will launch nukes for the Lulz
The zombie thing has to happen but, lets face it,i think everyone has thought of a (hopefully) watertight plan to survive, I know I have.
 

jcpwn3r

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call of duty 24, your heard it from me first

But other than that.

North Korea will most likely not go nuclear for several reasons, one being they are retarded. Though war will probably break. Provoking tense relations between China and the US. The huge population spike in the US due to the unrelenting reproduction rate of the latino population will make the US and china on an even keel in the Tech to man power ratio. China will side with russia and the rest of Asia, and some parts of africa to take on the US, Europe, India, and the middle east after billions of dollars invested into the ME by western powers brings a pro- American sentiment. South America will remain mostly ambiguous due to the fact they lack anything we want, though they may be good places for the Chinese to stage attacks. It will not go nuclear but devastating weapons will be used by both sides.

And because Call of Duty 24 will be released in virtual reality (of course and be super realistic, every american and European child and college age adult will be expert marksmen and this will result in the west winning, causing global peace so humanity can peruse the next great feat, space exploration and colonization. Only so that the same wars can be created between countries on planets and between planets. We we flourish throughout the galaxy until we meet an intelligent race of aliens,

the this is where episode one of star wars begins
 

Axeli

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Fulax said:
Axeli said:
Snoopster said:
Fulax said:
World War III, started by Israel/Iran/Pakistan -> Nuclear war -> Most of humanity dies.
yeah sure go for the obvious answers, but most people would like to think nuclear war aint gonna happen
I'm not sure exactly how nuclear war in the middle east would trigger a global one. It's not like world leaders automatically start running amok with ICBMs the moment one nation fires a nuke.
The US would probably help Israel if they were attacked by Iran, whether they started it or no, and the UK would obviously help the US. Then the rest of the muslim world would see it as a war on Islam so they'd join in.
Most of muslim world has no nukes, and definitely not ICBMs. Pakistan maybe, but they are already in a stale mate situation with India with the nukes. As long as the country has at least slightly sensible goverment they aren't firing anything.

The treath Middle East poses to the rest of the world is exaggarated by American media.
 

Eldritch Warlord

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I'm thinking faster-than-light travel will be the next big thing.

We have about all we need for Earth. Have you heard about the recent technologies?

100 square miles of solar panels in Arizona or Nevada could power the entire US

Steam engines that are 90% efficient (for reference most car engines are 40% efficient)

Hydrogen fuel cells

Really the only dire issue on the planet is water availability (not a problem for me though, I can look out the window and see the world's largest body of fresh water).
 

TwistedEllipses

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Nanobots!

Which I will use to kill people very slowly from the inside...and then heal them...then kill them...then build a replica of them...then kill them again...
 

Kell478

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I think there might be several. One would be the realization of A.I. We just recently hit a milestone where a microchip can do so many trillion calculations per second. Also the global warming will be a definate moment for us. Either we will all go to a more environtmentally friendly energy source, like solar power which also has come along way, or a global war fighting over the last remnants of fossil fuels on the planet. Another one which I believe the author Tom Clancey had put out their was the worlds dwindiling fresh water supply. The discovery of life on another planet, bacterial or other wise, would be an interesting development.
 

Danny Ocean

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Fusion Power, Wiping out AIDS, Separation of religion from state (Genuinely, this time), or space-based commercial enterprises, which always encourage ridiculously fast advancement.

Eldritch Warlord said:
I'm thinking faster-than-light travel will be the next big thing.
Seriously?

No, Seriously?

That's not possible as far as I know. Simply due to E=MC[sup]2[/sup]. If you're going faster than light, you have a ridiculous amount of energy, which relates to an even more obscene amount of mass.

The test ship is going to end up as a ridiculously fast moving black hole.
 

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A major breakthrough in stem cell research, it has the potential to cure nearly all forms of cancer, heal degenerative diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Alpha-1 Anti-trypsin deficiency, cystic fibrosis, Huntingtons, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Wegeners Granulamatous and the list goes on and on. It would be the most significant advance in medicine since penicillin, and one I hope to see in my lifetime.
 

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Abedeus said:
Those religious fanatics are only 5% of their population. Across the world, of course. So 1 out of 20 people from their country (if you bunched them up, that is, assuming you find them all) is a fanatic.
Well, all organizations start small. When they get into places of power they start to get the rest of the sheep to follow them. It's unlikely though, the world is not in as a bad a condition as the BBC tries to tell us really.
 

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matnatz said:
Abedeus said:
Those religious fanatics are only 5% of their population. Across the world, of course. So 1 out of 20 people from their country (if you bunched them up, that is, assuming you find them all) is a fanatic.
Well, all organizations start small. When they get into places of power they start to get the rest of the sheep to follow them. It's unlikely though, the world is not in as a bad a condition as the BBC tries to tell us really.
No, it's not an organization. It's a fanatic minority, actions of which doesn't approve the goverment OR the people.

Same with those Muslims that terrorize people. They are breaking at least 2 pillars of their faith...
 

Zydrate

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I hope cancer is cured but I also hope it doesn't turn into a global fuckup like what happened in (THE MOVIE) I Am Legend.