Human Race Obsolete?

[Halo]

With all the Mars exploration interest, how many of you think humans eventually will be succeeded by androids or the like, the old silicon replacing carbon theory?  

Perhaps the ultimate stretch would be androids eventually replicating themselves and taking over control from humans, keeping our remnants on reservations or wildlife preserves as a goodwill gesture to the humans who created them.

Since Earth eventually is doomed anyway, and humans are ill-equipped to colonize space, isn't it more likely that Earth eventually will immortalized to outer space neighbors more by our machines than ourselves?

[ra]

If android chicks are good looking, I'm there.

[Duedel]

If they have big ( o Y o ) resistance us futile

[Chairboy]

Humans are as ill-equipped to colonize space as they are to swim across the Atlantic, but that didn't stop europeans from reaching the americas.

[Duedel]

Originally posted by Chairboy
Humans are as ill-equipped to colonize space as they are to swim across the Atlantic, but that didn't stop europeans from reaching the americas.

Indians, u mean indians (not americans)

[Chairboy]

Originally posted by Duedel
Indians, u mean indians (not americans)

Did europeans ever reach the americas?  Yes.  So....  kindly sit down.

[Saurdaukar]

Battlestar HiTech

[Halo]

Heh, Battlestar HiTech.  Hmmmm, do you think that will be Aces High III or IV?

[Octavius]

biomodification!  I'll volunteer right away to become 'augmented'

Anyone play Deus Ex?

[Animal]

Originally posted by Octavius
biomodification!  I'll volunteer right away to become 'augmented'

Anyone play Deus Ex?

Oh yes, I want night vision and IR augmented eyesight, my eyes and brains adjusted to have a nice HUD. And souped up reflexes.

[Yeager]

No sweat people, at a future point in time the sun will exhaust its supply of fuel and implode in on itself creating a vast atomic explosion (SuperNova)and incinerate whatever is left of this planet.  The sun has a expected life time of 10 billion years and the sun is 5 billion years old.  You do the math

At a future point in time, 15 trillion years some say, the universe will have exhausted its fuel and die.

As the cosmos has a birth and a death, so do all creations contained therein, obviously including the entire human race.
Even if Capt Kirk were ever realized. there is no escaping the finality of death ona personal, global and comsic scale.

Enjoy your life, be prepared to die defending the quality of it, the freedom to believe what your mind wants.... but above all else find and make love.

[Maniac]

Human Race Obsolete?

To much Terminator 1-3 watching eh? Computers have to discover themselfs before this can happen... AI - Artificiall Intelligence...

You and i dont have to worry about this.. but maybe in another 100 - 200 years it will be capable...

[myelo]

Originally posted by Yeager
No sweat people, at a future point in time the sun will exhaust its supply of fuel and implode in on itself creating a vast atomic explosion (SuperNova)and incinerate whatever is left of this planet

Dangit. I'm gonna need more duct tape.

[LLv34_Camouflage]

Originally posted by Halo
how many of you think humans eventually will be succeeded by androids or the like, the old silicon replacing carbon theory?  

http://www.irobotnow.com/index.php

Camo

[deSelys]

Originally posted by Octavius
biomodification!  I'll volunteer right away to become 'augmented'

Anyone play Deus Ex?

I would already be happy if my virtual AH pilot had:

- X20 eyes with antiglare and thermal imaging
- artery valves to keep blood in upper body and allow +12 G
- boosted synthetic muscles to double max stick force (I fly the 109s a lot ;-) )

but above all, an ear device saying something like:
You idiot don't go for HO it's a Jug what do you expect???!!!! when I'm about to do something stupid.