A small group of scientists and
explorers will form a colony on Mars. The group will be
completely independent, growing their own food in
greenhouses. Both the U.S. space program and the
European Space Agency have projected a long-term vision
of a mission to Mars before 2030, with the idea of
developing a colony. Many supporters for such a colony
are already making plans. You can read about them at
various sites, including Red Colony.com, which offers
the mars exploration illustration above.
Amos Ori, a physics professor at
Technion University in Israel, said in 2005 that he has
compiled a mathematical model that defines the
conditions under which time travel might be successful.
He said our laws of physics do not rule out the
possibility of time travel, and he said "I write
mathematically. That doesn't mean I know how to
implement it practically. However … if
inhabitants of some highly advanced civilization could
set up the conditions … they might be able to
travel in time." He is quoted in an article in USA
Today saying it will require "absolute emptiness -
a vacuum … That means that, in principle, a
closed, time-like curve could happen naturally,
possibly through cataclysmic astronomical collisions in
the abyss of space." 
According to Ian Pearson, a
British Telecom "futurologist," humans will
be able to download information, images, memories,
feelings and more to their brains by the year 2050.
Also, by this time everything already in your brain can
be downloaded to a computer and saved. This will allow
digital immortality, because a person's brain
activity can be saved forever and also downloaded and
uploaded forever.
The following are excerpted from
the British Telecom Technology Timeline (information
was compiled by Ian Neild and Ian Pearson from
worldwide sci-tech reports in 2005): - Political correctness creates
new dark age
- Whole generation unable to
effectively read, write, think, and work
- Human genetic engineering
creates hostile super-race
- Humans assimilated into
net
- Time travel works with
humans
- Immortality chip - people move
into cyberspace
- Faster-than-light travel by
2100
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