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Fiction Now, But Humans Tend To Realize Dreams! Androidize The Planet Earth And Beyond?

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Imagine one day, the animation that is being depicted within YouTube’s “Kara: a PS3 new technology” video becomes real, what will be of such a future?  Out it leaps into reality where the line between a human and android becomes really blurry!  Of course, humans, the master of the planet earth with ambition to colonize the universe, will fear of androids’ potentials.  The obvious fear of them all would be the androids enslave the former masters of theirs.  Of course, at the moment, we humans do not have such fears yet since our computers, robots, and all do not know the difference between what make life bitter and what make life sweeter.  What if the automatons to become so self-aware?  Will their enlightenment drive the current planet earth master to the brink of The Matrix (the movie)?

English: drunken androids .. you kinda have to...

English: drunken androids .. you kinda have to see it. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Perhaps, the humans will get very lucky for awhile as all androids will obediently be subservient to their masters even though they know what it means to be a slave.  Perhaps, humans are so inventive to a point of having androids bear seeds so fruits can come to life to continue the long line of planet earth master?  Seeds and fruits? Imagine android, smart or not, self-aware or not, be able to carry a female productive system at all time as female eggs (in relation to human reproductive system) were preemptively prepared for a human creation.  Imagine humans will go as far as to prepare the sperms inside so called male android just so it would be able to copulate with so called female android that has eggs in order for a human creation process to begin.  Perhaps, humans become so lazy to a point that they will prefer androids to make babies altogether.  Sex acts will only be reserved for entertainment purpose.  Since sex acts become for entertainment only, it might not matter a human will copulate with an android or just another human.

Then there is this question, what if scenario… with advance android surrogate reproductive system, will the human reproduction process becomes evermore perfect (less of a hassle and painless in relation of a human mother has to go through to bear a child) and healthier?  What if it is, what will be the side effects in term of soul searching?  Will religions be against this?  Can abortion be questionable when androids become the surrogate mothers and fathers?

The conclusion is, everything about this is very intriguing to us all.  We will never know android fiction will ever come true.  If this sort of fiction to become the reality of tomorrow, human society will transform beyond our current imagination.  Perhaps, whatever humans choose to believe and take action for, fiction will eventually materialize.  Few examples are, the moon landing, nuclear power and weapons, and computing.  In the end, I think we all should be very careful about what we wish for and what actions we want to take upon according to our wishes and imagination.  Once the Pandora’s box is opened, it’s really hard to close if not impossible!

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A Galaxy Is A Universe?

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Solar System

Solar System (Photo credit: Joe Plocki (turbojoe))

I can’t help but imagine up a crazy scenario in regarding to the bewilderment of the finding of Voyager 1 so far.  According to Arstechnica’s “Missing: Voyager 1 yet to find the boundary line of the Solar System” article, it seems that the model of predicting the borderline of our solar system has been wrong as the scientists cannot agree with the Voyager 1′s data in this regard.  Of course, I’m not going to lie, I barely understand the article since it is too science-nerdy.  Nonetheless, the article has suggested that Voyager 1′s data have somehow hinted that it is unexpectedly not yet being where it’s supposed to be, and where it’s supposed to be is to be near the border of the solar system.  Beyond the immediate surrounding of our solar system border is known as heliopause.  Anyhow, it’s clearly shown that we can only guess of how the stuffs in our universe behave according to the theories and models we think that are most likely to be correct, but the truth is that the reality of the stuffs out there, within our universe, can really be bizarre.  Especially, as the distance gets farther and farther away from our home planet, we can only truly guess.

So what is my crazy scenario?  Without any proof and fact to back up this scenario, and I know it’s probably and most likely inclining toward science fiction and pure fantasy, but this idea had entered my tiny brain regardless.  Let just dilly dally a bit more before I reveal the crazy scenario.  So, according to other people, just the Milky Way galaxy alone, which contains earth (our home planet), has roughly around 200 billion stars or even more.  I can be wrong on this next thing.  According to other people again, many solar systems in Milky Way galaxy might contain more than one star.  According to what we think we know, our solar system is unique as it contains only one star.  Still, even if there are solar systems that can contain unlimited amount of stars, 100 billion stars or more are plenty for plenty of solar systems to spring about.  We’re making the stars as the protagonists, because the stars are the most massive objects in any solar system.  With this knowledge, we can say the stars are the most important bodies in a solar system.  Hint, the emphasis of calling a smallest system (i.e., containing stars) of systems within a universe as a solar system.  Solar means sun.  Sun is a star.  My point of laying all these assumed facts out is that the distance and sizes of things in space are just mind boggling.

Since it’s just crazy enough to contemplate on the things we think we know about our solar system, imagine that we have to also think about other galaxies.  Even crazier, we like to think about the universe itself.  Perhaps, I might be even crazier and suggest that each galaxy is a universe of itself.  This is the very (crazy) scenario which I had hinted about.  Of course, you can’t disprove me yet until there is a technology which allows you to travel beyond our galaxy.  Sure, you can try to disprove this crazy scenario with your naked eyes and cameras and say that your naked eyes and cameras had seen the galaxies such as Andromeda.  But let me ask you this, how do you know what you see isn’t another universe but just a galaxy?  Of course, you can argue and say a galaxy is a universe, but a universe in a galaxy manner, because the real universe would encompass all objects we think there are in space.  Even with this argument, how can you be so sure of what you have seen with the eyes and the tools (e.g., camera, telescope)?  The Voyager 1 so far has proved that the model which we rely on for the calculation the distance from here on out, nearing the border of our solar system, has been wrong.  It had taken 35 years for the Voyager 1 to travel that far out, and yet it seems the evidence is suggesting the Voyager 1 is nowhere near the edge of the solar system.  Perhaps, Voyager 1 isn’t sufficient enough to actually bring about the evidences we need to prove that we have seen the border of our solar system?  In any regard, things out there are simply too complex for us to know exactly unless we actually travel there ourselves.  Even then, let us contemplate on these things even more.

In conclusion, I’ve no idea what I’m talking about, but the crazy scenario had already entered my tiny brain.  I let it sprouts, because it is just so fascinating.  Nonetheless, like I say, it might just be simply a crazy, idiotic scenario.  I chuckle, a galaxy is a universe.  By the way, don’t talk about this idea in your science class, because your fellow classmates might laugh at you and think you’re an idiot.  So, you have been warned!  For me, sometimes, it’s great to be an idiot.

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Human Arrogance May Cost Us Our Dear Civilizations; To Not Explore Is To Stem A Growth Of Any Sort!

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Description: Trees were knocked down and burne...

Description: Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact. Note: This image is public domain, from the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927 Source: http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr/planets/webfigs/impacts/slide1.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Story like the report of Huge Asteroid to Fly by Earth Thursday: How to Watch Online reminds us that complacency can be a death knell of humankind civilizations.  What might be worse would be that us so called modern humans may have the ingenuity to come up with methods to evade a space rock that might end all humankind civilizations, but a solution might never come about until too late!  It will happen if us humans tend to be complacent and think that the invincibility of humanity would always prevail.

Perhaps we thought we had survived few events where space rocks actually had entered our earth atmospheres, therefore we should be evermore complacent and moot about this sort of events.  Remember the Tunguska event?  Many of us who are busied with making a living and make way in society, therefore we might never allow ourselves the time to think about something that might end us all.  Nonetheless, have we ever wondered a scenario of a space rock that is big and dangerous enough which might threaten the survival of all earthly civilizations is heading this way?  Have we thought about if this space rock is so big to a point that we cannot use any of our weapons and tools to deflect it?

I fear that we humans might not be able to come up with a solution that is capable of pushing a space rock with the size of a city out of earth’s orbit, therefore we humans must think up ways to ensure the survival of humankind.  Let not be too arrogant and think that our innovations can solve all problems, because there might be problems that just too big and too ugly for humans to take on.  Don’t wait till at the very late stage when we finally realize that the space rock that might end us all won’t budge even if we use all our tools and weapons to deny its earthly collision course, because then it would be too late, too too late to do anything about it… all because of human arrogance?  This is why it’s crucial for space programs to be expanded and not to be scuttle away.

Expanding space programs might allow humans to be able to cultivate another space body to the point that humans can settle there, and this will too allow humankind to have an insurance of sort — an insurance of which to protect human civilizations from humankind extinction.  We see animal kingdom’s extinctions all the time, and don’t think for a second that humans are immune to this sort of extinction.  Another advantage of expanding space programs is to allow a future where prosperity can only grow but not shrink, because within deep space we might find plenty of resources that we need and other exotic resources that we may need.  Us humans never know there might be some types of resources that lay in space, waiting to be discovered, and such resources might be potent enough to drive human innovations even further than our very own hopes and imaginations.  Thus too our civilizations will prosper and grow like we have never seen before!!!

Without explorations of the past, we would not have been where we are today.  Within space, uncharted territories are countless, and by promoting and cultivating bolder, bigger, better, and gutsier kind of space programs — we humans might see humankind civilizations to have an almost eternal lifespan.  Sure, nothing will last forever, but why not let us dare to hope and try to cultivate our humankind civilizations to last as long as we can, right?

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Craziest Idea Of The Day: Hiding Behind A Lifeless Planet Illusion To Evade A Possible Alien Attack

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Planets from Venus up to Uranus have diameters...

Planets from Venus up to Uranus have diameters from ten to one hundred million metres. Top row: Uranus (left), Neptune (right); middle row: Earth (left), Sirius B (center), and Venus (right), to scale. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sometimes, craziest idea ever would pop into my tiny brain, and no matter how crazy it was I would say wow and would think about sharing it.  Here is one for the day.  Perhaps, one day we might be invaded by the aliens, therefore we should come up with technology that projects earth as a lifeless planet so the aliens would prefer to pass us by for a prettier planet.  Of course, there is no guarantee as alien technology might be able to penetrate all of our illusions.  If the aliens will be real (or are real) and whatever they want to do that might not be so friendly, should we be hiding behind an illusion only?  Of course, such a question is so out of this world, I might be long long gone before several millennia later that someone would even think about asking this question again for real.  Perhaps, never ever such a question will ever have any merit since our universe, alone, is so vast that it is just mind boggling to think one intelligent planet can find another let alone travelling to it.  Nonetheless, whether this question is belonging to science fiction realm or not, I think it’s rather cool just to think of it… so there it is…

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The Curiosity Of The First Man

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Was a woman the first prototype of homo-sapiens to appear on this special planet known as earth?  Or was such a prototype of homo-sapiens a man?  Of course, religions have their own answers to this ancient riddle, but none would be the one true answer to this ancient riddle.  Why?  Only the believers of the specific religions would believe and accept such answers.  Therefore, we would not be able to know for sure, right?  Instead of relying on the religions to give answers to this ancient riddle and in the process we might invoke unnecessary hatreds, and so we should look toward science for a more concrete answer to this ancient riddle.

Unfortunately, as now science isn’t yet being able to actually solve this ancient riddle.  Nonetheless, we know science is very methodically and scientifically at solving problems.  This is why science might come up with a more concrete answer for this ancient riddle.  Still, we have to wonder how much longer would science have to take to be able to solve this ancient riddle of ours.  In fact, this ancient riddle has been a mystery for ages, as far back as the first body of homo-sapiens walked the planet earth.  It’s just fascinating to ask ourselves was the first body of homo-sapiens who walked the planet earth a man or a woman, right?

As now, we can’t really come up with an answer to finally demystify this ancient riddle of ours, but we can at least take a look at the clues we have.  OK, before I go any further on this subject, I must confess that I’m not a biologist or even have a good enough understanding of biology or microbiology, therefore my understanding of the microbe world might not pan out entirely correct.  With that being said, let us take a look at the clues we have so we might move in the direction in which perhaps someone might come up with the answer to our ancient riddle soon enough.

We know first prototype of homo-sapiens was probably not just sprung into the existence out of the thin air.  In fact, it might be the evolution of single cell organisms.  I believe single cell organisms would divide itself fast enough which gave them a lucky chance where an error in the cell division would occur and produce multi-organisms, but of course we might not know for certain how long was it took for single cell organisms to actually, randomly produce error which led to an evolution of single cell organisms, and the end result was the very first multicell organisms had sprung into the existence.  To cut short, I believe from the evolution of multicell organisms, the very first homo-sapiens would spring into the existence.

Let us digress at this point and take on another angle.  We know man or woman must born out of a woman belly, because it’s the truth as we observe it everyday!  Perhaps, every single second we take notice, a baby is born?  Don’t scrutinize me on this, because I don’t actually have the math of how many babies are born in a second in the world, but anyway let us go on.  So, it’s unthinkable for us not to realize that our ancient riddle is in fact might be too difficult to solve.  Why?  Because we have to wonder how could a woman impregnate in the first place if every prototype child must be born from a woman belly.  You see, there must be an entity which had impregnated a very first female body of homo-sapiens in the first place so that prototype of first child of homo-sapiens would come into existence.  After all, everybody of homo-sapiens had always been born from a woman belly!

Of course, someone might argue confidently that there must be a very first male prototype (singular as in a man) of male homo-sapiens to go about and impregnate the very first female prototype (singular as in a woman) of homo-sapiens, otherwise how would we explain the existence of female wombs (i.e., how female homo-sapiens would bear the responsibility of giving birth), right?  Nonetheless, how could we satisfy our ancient riddle if the mystery is still pointing to that everybody of homo-sapiens must come from a woman belly?  The mystery points out that a very first male prototype of homo-sapiens must had been still first come into existence inside a belly of a very first female prototype of homo-sapiens.

Of course, we can always surmise that single cell organisms might evolve into a prototype of homo-sapiens which could be both male and female at the same time.  Through times, such a culture of a bi-special prototype of homo-sapiens might choose to develop in a way which each member would choose a specialty of their own.  This way, a group of bi-special prototype of homo-sapiens might specialize in only hunting, therefore had no need in bearing children — slowly moving away from developing wombs and evolving away from female-hood.  This might explain how we arrive to have male and female homo-sapiens, right?

Nonetheless, evolution of developing specialties for certain needs doesn’t seem to be satisfactory.  After all, it will take ages to do so if it’s even possible.  This is why I think it was the freak accidents that actually gave way to the existence of female and male homo-sapiens.  Freak accidents?  In this context, it’s a good thing.  It’s Darwinism!  It’s an evolution of how single cell organisms evolved into multicell organisms; multicell organisms evolved into bi-special prototype of homo-sapiens; bi-special prototype of homo-sapiens evolved into specializations of prototypes of homo-sapiens (i.e., female and male homo-sapiens).  This evolution template branch might be a  mere blueprint for all living things, I think.  Why a mere blueprint?  Perhaps, each living thing might evolve quite similarly but each also might take each own unique timeline to arrive at specific point where a clear distinction between female and male prototypes of living things would occur.  Anyhow, we have digressed at this point as I try to go into the matter of all living things.

In conclusion, our ancient riddle stands unsolved, because there is not a scientific proof of how man had come into the existence.  I guess, the existence of a woman was and is always a given.  After all, all offsprings must come from women’ bellies.  Of course, as where this stands, the mystery of a very first man doesn’t belittle the role of men at all.  After all, before the existence of the science of in vitro fertilization, women could not be impregnated without men.  This is why the mystery is deepening, and so our ancient riddle is too!  Isn’t this fascinating?

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Do We Have To Fear Or Even Worry About What Might Be An Overpopulated Earth?

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World human population (est.) 10,000 BC–2000 AD.

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Human population is now over 7 billion and counting.  I think human population tends to grow quicker when overall number is huge, and over 7 billion is rather huge indeed.  So, the bigger the number for the human population, we can assume there will always be a large group of people that rather produces offsprings than not, and there will always be a small group of people that prefers produce offsprings late or not at all.  With such a knowledge, we can furthermore assume there will always be more people who might want to produce more offsprings in general, and so the future population might continue to explode unless something odd would happen.

I’ve a feeling that something odd might be overpopulation, and so jobs would be harder to come by for most people.  To a certain point, the most necessary jobs that keep the basic needs flowing for the human population might be so scarce, scarce to a point that people might not be able to find jobs in the basic need sector.  Service sector might still be able to employ more people, but by then I think even service sector finds to be overcrowded and competitive.  Unfortunately, technology might make the situation worse by becoming smarter and replacing human beings in certain jobs.  I dare to speculate as far as technology might be able to replace human beings in most jobs.

My curiosity begs the question of when there are more mouths to feed than more jobs to apply for, what might happen then?  We can hope that technology is going to be so smart and advance that it will totally replace all human jobs and produce everything in abundance so the humans never have to lift a finger ever again.  Of course, such technology requires infinite amount of energy to compensate for almost limitless amount of resources and goods.  Such scenario might happen, but we can never be too sure that it will happen.  Let not forget greed might enter and the fairness of the distribution of the basic needs and other materials might not occur, and so some people in some parts of the world will continue to go on starving.  If technology isn’t going to be at the level where everything could be produced limitlessly, we human beings might fight over resources and wars would dwindle down the size of the human population.  Such a scenario would be unthinkable as unheard sorrow, grief, sadness, and so on would ensue.  We definitely won’t want to see such a scenario plays out, right?  So what can we do to prepare for such a future?

I think, we have two options.  Of course there might be more options other than the two that I will propose, but my tiny brain could not come up with more at this particular moment.  The first option which involves in finding a safe but limitless source of energy or energies and becoming innovative to a point that would allow technology to automate most things and replace all human beings at their jobs.  OK, you might think this is crazy, because if such a scenario ever happens, how the humans feed themselves without being able to find a job, right?  Not to be worried much, because I think if technology is able to produce almost limitless amount of products, goods, resources, and energy, we humans might never have to experience a day without food, shelter, and technology ever again.  Nonetheless, this scenario requires the best of minds to outdo themselves in ways that they never would have dreamed of.  Of course, this very scenario might not happen since it’s almost as if something is out of this world.  The second option is for the whole human race, regardless of their skin colors, to explore the new frontier which is space.  Space is vast, and I mean vast.  Vast to a point that we cannot know if space has edges or not.  We know planet earth has edges or boundaries (i.e., relatively speaking of earth’s round globelike container or sphere), and so we can escape its edges or boundaries.  How about space?  We don’t know, but we welcome its vastness.  Space so vast that it has plenty of galaxies and phenomenons that humans can explore.  With such a notion in mind, I think the space or the universe itself may be able to help the humans from avoiding the overpopulation matter.  Space encourages the ambitious humans to explore.  When humans have more things to explore, we might not have time to kill each other.  We humans might only want to outdo, outshine, out-mine, and out-whatever one another in space, right?

In summary, I know pondering on overpopulation might be rather dreamy, but mathematically speaking it’s possible to overpopulate earth.  With that being said, sometimes overpopulation isn’t all about how many more human beings earth can house, but it might be more about how many more mouths earth can feed.  It’s a serious thought, because the overall complexity of having ever growing population is evermore complex.  Yep, this train isn’t going to slow down folks!  Individual complexities might become insurmountable if the human population cannot slow down.  To name a few individual complexities, these might be edible foods, clean water, diseases, viruses, jobs, energy, and global warming.  Of course, we humans have compassion and intelligence, therefore we must not kill each other for resources; instead, we must innovate our way out of the obstacles.  Even if certain obstacles are insurmountable, we humans still have to try to overcome such obstacles with the right attitudes.  Such attitudes have to be about using our compassion, intelligence, and other well known valuable human morals (i.e., doing the right things).  Unfortunately, I fear we humans cannot do away with greed and foolishness that we might kill each other over resources and what not.

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