Posted by ChicagoKat on October 15, 2012, at 19:04:59
In reply to Re: Hope for the future? » ChicagoKat, posted by Phil on October 13, 2012, at 17:08:01
> I've always really wished I could travel through time. I would love, and be freaked out, to see what is happening in 200 years. I've spent hours thinking about it.
> Would anything be recognizable? What would we dress like? Would we be speaking Chinese :), would the planet be here? What would the population be? Would we be paying tons of money for water if there was any? I guess we would be dead in that case.
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> If anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them.I think about exactly the same things Phil! I find it fascinating as well, b/c I think of the opposite alternative too: what if a person from 200yrs ago could travel to our time? Imagine their reaction to cars, let alone planes!! I bet we can't even truly guess at what we'd see 200yrs from now....the only idea I can think of with any real plausibility is that we'll have killed most of the population as well as most of the plants and animals by setting off nuclear bombs against each other. :(
Kat
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