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Subject: Do you think our technology will match that of the UNSC in 500 years?
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Poll: Do you think our technology will match that of the UNSC in 500 years?  [closed]
Will be similar.:  25%
(56 Votes)
Will be below UNSC standard.:  17%
(38 Votes)
Will be above UNSC standard.:  38%
(84 Votes)
Will be Covenant standard.:  7%
(16 Votes)
Will be Forerunner standard.:  6%
(13 Votes)
Humanity will end in 2012. There is no 500 years.:  8%
(17 Votes)
Total Votes: 224

Your honest thoughts please.

  • 04.12.2011 4:18 AM PDT
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I would not be surprised if we did not live outside of our solar system in 500 years.

  • 04.12.2011 4:23 AM PDT

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.

Guns may be better along with ground vehicles.

But we won't have the space ships the unsc has or spartans...

  • 04.12.2011 4:28 AM PDT

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In terms of vehicles, weaponry, and overall technology, much better. Although this is assuming we discover a viable alternate energy source to replace fossil fuels.

Super soldiers, interstellar space travel, and vacuum combat? Let's just say I wont hold my breath.

[Edited on 04.12.2011 4:34 AM PDT]

  • 04.12.2011 4:33 AM PDT

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Read the news - seems like mankind is actually going backwards.

  • 04.12.2011 4:35 AM PDT

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I think it will be very similar indeed.

Halo is actually more fact than fiction than you might think. Plasma shielding exists, and NASA is working on it for their satellites at the moment. Though the main problem is power consumption. They can get it to work, but only on a small object with like massive batteries. A technology called, nano tubing? Correct me if i am wrong? That is being used to solve this issue.

FTL drives are also a very real possibility. Without getting all technical, the physics are theoretically possible. So in theory, FTL drives could work, or was it something similar? Dunno. Some theory like that anyway.

Whereas dinosaurs coming forward in time..... not too sure about that one :p

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  • 04.12.2011 4:49 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

US focusses more on war then space colonisation.

If the world keeps being that stupid,humans will die out.

  • 04.12.2011 6:07 AM PDT

Personally, I think it could be possible. The U.S. army are currently trying to build an exo-skeleton for heavy lifting. They just haven't created a strong enough power supply. Cryogenics are being worked on for hospitals. For example if a person is bleeding out they can put them into cryo and take them to the ER and clot the bleeding. Before we try FTL drives, we need to perfect space shuttles. We have the power necessary for certain futuristic technology. The most powerful supply we can readily acess is fussion reactors and nuclear reactors. One other technology that the U.S military is working on is "invisibility." It is basically a poncho that you toss over you and it uses a camera to project whats all around you onto the poncho. Genetics, that's a whole nother thing indeed, would be used to enhance reflexes and maximize the use of the eyes. I could go on all day.

  • 04.12.2011 6:47 AM PDT

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I don't think that the Human race will be doing so well in 500 years.

  • 04.12.2011 6:58 AM PDT
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It will likely be better than UNSC tech, assuming we don't blow ourselves up with nukes in the meantime. If that happens, we'll either be extinct or a pre-industrial civilization again.

  • 04.12.2011 8:16 AM PDT

Personally I think we're stuck on Earth for a very long time. We have some -blam!- to deal with here and it's gonna be gritty. Nobody cares about space except a tiny minority.

  • 04.12.2011 9:35 AM PDT


Posted by: dr spartan32
Not at all, our ships won't be able to defy the second law of thermodynamics, nor will they be able to utilise some pseudoscience to travel FTL. We won't design unrealistic vehicles such as the Warthog or the Scorpion, our firearms won't get worse than they are today. We won't have gravity on our ships without spinning sections or constant acceleration, etc.

Halo is not a realistic representation of our future, not one bit.


UNSC ships do have spinning portions, at least some.

And it depends, military wise maybe better if we keep going on focused on war.

  • 04.12.2011 10:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: dr spartan32
Not at all, our ships won't be able to defy the second law of thermodynamics, nor will they be able to utilise some pseudoscience to travel FTL. We won't design unrealistic vehicles such as the Warthog or the Scorpion, our firearms won't get worse than they are today. We won't have gravity on our ships without spinning sections or constant acceleration, etc.

Halo is not a realistic representation of our future, not one bit.

1-the slipspace is actualy a wormhole punched trought existance so it can be real
2- UNSC ships have spining sections
3-firearms and vehicles part is right

  • 04.12.2011 10:53 AM PDT

I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence!

im pretty sure we'll destroy ourselves in a nuclear war before 500 years come around.

  • 04.12.2011 11:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Damizoid
im pretty sure we'll destroy ourselves in a nuclear war before 500 years come around.


Kay. Why the -blam!- does everyone always say this?
Humanity is NOT a stupid and barbaric race. We will overcome ANYTHING that is put in our way.


well it is apparent that somebody is sheltered :/

Anyways i don't foresee us living the next 1,000 years if not 500. but if we do i think we well be around the UNSC level of technology.

[Edited on 04.12.2011 11:30 AM PDT]

  • 04.12.2011 11:23 AM PDT

I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence!

except the fact that some countries dont really like other ones, and you know how some people can be temper mental right?

  • 04.12.2011 11:23 AM PDT


Posted by: Sigma617

Posted by: Damizoid
im pretty sure we'll destroy ourselves in a nuclear war before 500 years come around.


Kay. Why the -blam!- does everyone always say this?
Humanity is NOT a stupid and barbaric race. We will overcome ANYTHING that is put in our way.


Yet stupidity and barbarism are prominent. We focus on increasing military might, not economy. Governments, it seems, would rather build bigger and better military tech/weapons/vehicles then trying to preserve the planet or stabilize economy.

Frankly, right now they'd rather produce a new fighter jet that's three times more expensive and only 1.5 times more effective then what is out now.

So yes, I'd have to say as of now humanity is filled with stupid and barbaric people.

  • 04.12.2011 11:28 AM PDT

Posted by: gst353
It will likely be better than UNSC tech, assuming we don't blow ourselves up with nukes in the meantime. If that happens, we'll either be extinct or a pre-industrial civilization again.

Quite possibly, and also very true!

  • 04.12.2011 11:30 AM PDT

Man people are such pessimists.

In 500 humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

As for how we'll achieve FTL travel, who knows. There are a lot of physically viable options that we have to explore. It could just as likely be something we haven't thought of yet. It could also be impossible but that wouldn't stop us. We would send ships out with people in suspended animation or something similar if we have to.

In fact I actually think the first human colony ship to leave our solar system will not arrive at their destination first. I suspect the first ship will be passed by a ship built some centuries after it left.

I also FIRMLY believe that humanity CANNOT destroy itself even if it tried.

But these boards tend be filled with people half my age seeing nothing but bad news on TV and believe the world on a downward decline. In actuality the world is is no worse off than it was 1,000 years ago. We face different challenges obviously but nothing we cannot over come with human perseverance.

The only thing I'm concerned about is our reluctance to push farther than we have. In order for our species to survive we have to establish colonies on other world before we get hit by a world killing impact. That is a matter of when not if.

Anyway, people are way to pessimistic and underestimating of humanity.

  • 04.12.2011 1:19 PM PDT

Remember that cartoon The Jetsons? That was supposed to take place in the year 2000. Remember (or rent) the movie 2001:A Space Odyssey? According to Arthur C. Clark we should have had colonies on Mars by now.

The financial incentive doesn't exist yet. If Neil Armstrong had brought back a gold nugget or had oil stains on his space suit the moon would be like Las Vegas now.

  • 04.12.2011 1:21 PM PDT


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The financial incentive doesn't exist yet. If Neil Armstrong had brought back a gold nugget or had oil stains on his space suit the moon would be like Las Vegas now.



Helium 3 is a very high value resource that is easy to obtain on the moon. There is financial incentive out there. It just takes a lot of investment capital to obtain and transport it. So far no one has taken the steps to do so (obviously). But once they do and work out the hurdles then it becomes hyper-profitable.

The problem is that it's cheaper to get resources from 3rd world countries and the demand isn't so high that companies feel outer space is needed. Also getting things into space is still far too expensive. If we could replace the INCREDIBLY inefficient rockets we use with something that works better then the cost would plummet.

  • 04.12.2011 1:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: xRYOKUx
Man people are such pessimists.

In 500 humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.

As for how we'll achieve FTL travel, who knows. There are a lot of physically viable options that we have to explore. It could just as likely be something we haven't thought of yet. It could also be impossible but that wouldn't stop us. We would send ships out with people in suspended animation or something similar if we have to.

In fact I actually think the first human colony ship to leave our solar system will not arrive at their destination first. I suspect the first ship will be passed by a ship built some centuries after it left.

I also FIRMLY believe that humanity CANNOT destroy itself even if it tried.

But these boards tend be filled with people half my age seeing nothing but bad news on TV and believe the world on a downward decline. In actuality the world is is no worse off than it was 1,000 years ago. We face different challenges obviously but nothing we cannot over come with human perseverance.

The only thing I'm concerned about is our reluctance to push farther than we have. In order for our species to survive we have to establish colonies on other world before we get hit by a world killing impact. That is a matter of when not if.

Anyway, people are way to pessimistic and underestimating of humanity.


-So the Humans will magically have an infinite budget that allows them to quickly colonise planets with ease?

The reason why the Humans still use bullets is because they never focused on war,and why discard bullets if it ain't broken?You are probably like those guys who love flying cars and laserzzzz

-Why not make an FTL drive

-WTF?

-Even if tried?Listen Humans aren't invincible,we are already screwing up the planet.What do you think will happen if the oil runs out in 40 years?If we haven't found a solution for that,because now we are slowly making progress with clean energy.Then we are screwed,transport run out of fuel,Nations are in war for the last oil.I can list more other problems we will have to face later.

-I doubt we had global warming caused my us 1000 years ago.All there was were wars between some states and a disease that wiped out a large part of Europe...Now there is still war between some nations like in the middle east or Korea problems.There are many major diseases now too that kill off people in Africa ,and you say it's "no worse"?Did they have nuclear problems 1000 years ago that can spread radiation to other countries?I think not.

-You think it can magically happen.

The only way if we can expand into space is at first stop focusing on pointless war and do something to produce clean energy in the future among other things.

  • 04.12.2011 1:46 PM PDT


Posted by: xRYOKUx
In 500 years humanity will be on par/beyond Covenant. The tech in UNSC is odd. We won't be using bullets in 50-100 years, and if we are it will be magnetic rail based not gunpowder based.


There is nothing to prove that. Heck, didn't they say we should all have hover cars by now?

Oh, if you pay attention to the halo canon, UNSC didn't do any weapons research after it could leave the system, instead focusing entirely on colonization and related things. They only restarted it due to rebels popping up.

as for being 'pessimists', I say realists. Maybe overdoing it saying we'll all kill each other quickly, but at the current trend? Yeah all everybody cares about it seems is military advancement. A culture cannot evolve/ advance is all they care about is making a bigger gun.

As a friend said about humanity once, "We have weaponized everything." Expands that to "We find a new resource that could be an awesome fuel source/ replace something we use today which is not as good. Guess what they do to it first? Turn it into a bomb or weapon of some kind."

  • 04.12.2011 1:47 PM PDT