Putting the Present in Perspective: A Thousand Years from now.

Putting the Present in Perspective: A Thousand Years from now.

I saw an image on TV yesterday that struck me as bizarre. It wasn't inherently bizarre, like a seven limbed toad, and was common enough to pass muster for most folks...at least I think so. Don't ask because I don't even remember what the image was. My following thought was how the image would "look" in a thousand years.

Try this...


Or this...


Or this...


What think you?
Add your own image at will.

Three controversial argumentative points certainly........

Originally posted by Jaybro:

My following thought was how the image would "look" in a thousand years.

I wonder how this will look in 1,000 years:

Something like this.

Pretty much the same...but then it'll be food for quiz shows, if they still exist.

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Originally posted by Jaybro:

My following thought was how the image would "look" in a thousand years.

I wonder how this will look in 1,000 years:

To what?

Our offspring, of course.

My hope would be no guns, equal money for everyone and no more fighting over religion but most likely there will be the same problems as now

Originally posted by Jaybro:

Something like this.

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

I wonder how this will look in 1,000 years:

Originally posted by Frenzie:

Something like this.

"Something like" indeed, in a thousand years it would probably be some 4-dimensional hologram...but, at the very least, I would expect it to show Antarctica in 1,000 years... if not some Star Trek/United Planets type thing.

I think we would still be the same 1000 years ago.

Originally posted by OnetimePoster:

To what?

After Global Warming's "predicted" effects.

Originally posted by Frenzie:

Something like this.

Probably so, yes.

Originally posted by Museatlantis:

My hope would be no guns

Over my and (hopefully) my descendents dead bodies!
I will never give up my guns.

Originally posted by Museatlantis:

and no more fighting over religion but most likely there will be the same problems as now

Well, seeing if religion will survive another 1,000 years would definitely be interesting.

Originally posted by Thabotizz:

I think we would still be the same 1000 years ago.

Really?
So you think that Greece will still be rioting, the UK will still have a hung Parliment, and the US will still be the sole superpower? Wow.

[qoute=thedawgfan]
Really?
So you think that US will still be the sole superpower?

you are wrong. US will have a civil war and there will also be a jihad up north. To top it all up the G8 will be dissolved. Africa an independent state. No IMF, No World bank debt!

Originally posted by Jaybro:

Our offspring, of course.

Or how you would look like if you stayed around until then.

Originally posted by Jaybro:

I saw an image on TV yesterday that struck me as bizarre. It wasn't inherently bizarre, like a seven limbed toad, and was common enough to pass muster for most folks...at least I think so. Don't ask because I don't even remember what the image was. My following thought was how the image would "look" in a thousand years.

The best indications should come from how images looked like 1000, 2000, 3000 years ago.

A 1000 years ago they looked horrible. They looked much better 2000 and 3000 years ago.

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

I will never give up my guns.

You can take the man out of Mississippi, but you can't take Mississippi out of the man.

Originally posted by jax:

Or how you would look like if you stayed around until then.

Hell, that's what I look like now.

I think Frenzie with that symbol you have got carried away with that smart alex scientist in the wheelchair. He goes on about aliens without any proof but doesn't stop him talking a load of old bull about what they are like whate they will do and a breakdown on their thinking (!). And he scoffs at religion?!

Oh come on... if we found out there was another intelligent species out there from another planet, you would have a whole new species to be racist about, you wouldn't have to settle for just "everyone not British" but everyone not British, <i>and</i> not from this planet. That should make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside...

Besides, the image Frenzie posted doesn't necessarily involve "aliens" it could just as easily be the "United Planets" of this star system, ie: Mars, the moons of Jupiter, etc...

Or it could just be something like the Soviet Union, having one tiny base on the moon and claiming to be a star empire (complete with all the democratic etc. stuff).

Originally posted by jax:

Originally posted by Jaybro:

I saw an image on TV yesterday that struck me as bizarre. It wasn't inherently bizarre, like a seven limbed toad, and was common enough to pass muster for most folks...at least I think so. Don't ask because I don't even remember what the image was. My following thought was how the image would "look" in a thousand years.

The best indications should come from how images looked like 1000, 2000, 3000 years ago.

In that vein, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger wrote a book "The Year 1000".
I thought it was a good read.