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    I'm a pessimist when it comes to human interstellar travel.  I believe we will destroy or exhaust the resources on our planet necessary to develop the means for interstellar travel.  Development of new technologies, fuels, and resources depends on existing technologies, fuels, and resources.  I think we're going to run out of the old stuff before we can make the new stuff.  Of course, I could very well be wrong but humans seem extremely dependent on

    fossil fuels and these seem to be getting more and more precious. 

     

    This theory pretty much confines humanity to the inner planets.  We will (maybe fortunately for the universe) probably stay here until we destroy ourselves.

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    I'm sorry I have to agree with Nik on his point, it's sad that we've been kept dependant on fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine for over a century...and the Auto makers and Oil companies want to keep it that way!

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    SCENARIO: At sunrise September 15th, 2004 around the world, everyone except the Startrekfans.net members suddenly vanish (are "Taken" similar to the New Testament Revelations and the movie-"Left Behind" ......) leaving behind only we few, this is our story ~The Days After~.

     

    Rules: Your entries are to be journal like...and interaction between characters can't span more than 24 hours in a single entry (example: don not write- I walked for 6 days and now am doing such and such< that forces others to account/catch up what they did for all that time). Be yourself, or make up a "realistic" contemporary character, reveal as much or as little of the real you as you like, just no "super-powers" and no futuristic technology. The RPG is about what You would do, if we found we were the only one's left behind.

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Days After~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

    September 15th 2004 07:00 A.M. Central Time

     

    My alarm sounds. I roll out of bed, wipe my eyes and climb back into the driver's seat. I'm a over the road truck driver, and this load's got to be in Chicago before 5 p.m. I release the brakes and pull out of the Pilot truck-stop -Mauston, Wi.

    The sunrise was about 30 minutes earlier, and I guess I'm getting a jump on the other drivers....the truck stop seems still quiet..I think to myself "Early bird gets the worm...as I pull onto Interstate 90/94.

    I drive just a few miles...and there's an Accident up ahead. I gear down as I approach, it looks like a bad one.. a three car pile-up, one has ran off the road and rolled over, it's on fire. I stop, grab my fire extinguisher and run to the burning car to put out the fire.....but no one's inside! I check the other cars...nothing there but clothes. I call 911 on my cell, No Answer! I look up and down the hi-way, no traffic...AT ALL! I begin to get a strange scary feeling, I climb back into my rig and continue down the hi-way, here and there cars, trucks all ran off the road, some setting still, others rolled over, some on fire.....but still NO BODY AROUND.

    I near the Petro-Portage,Wi I pull off the hi-way...I've been trying to call everyone I know on Phone...no answers! There's a large fire at the truck stop fuel island, a Semi had ran over a Pump and the whole island is on fire, still no fire trucks, no by-standers. I pull around to the main building, luckily it's a good distance from the fire. I go inside......no one there, just little piles of clothing here and there, I'm shaking now....but then I catch the smell of the Breakfast Bar, I enter the Restaurant....there's a full bar of fresh food, but no one there...I go into the kitchen and there's burning food, what used to be bacon on the grill...no one's there, here and there plates of food dropped on the floor amid little piles of clothing. Well, guess my first order of business is Survival....I better not let this food go to waste, I make a plate and set down to a quiet 9:30 A.M. breakfast.

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    I liked all THREE Highlander movies.  I'm not sure what you call that... thing... between the original and The Final Dimension, but it definitely wasn't Highlander.

     

    The TV series was so-so.  Not bad but also not something I would set an appointment to watch.

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    i thought the "Quickening" really suxs...i think they could have found a better way to bring back Sean Connery....but all that c r a p with the immortals being from outerspace was just garbage...it didn't have any of the "heart+soul" of the other movies.

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    Months pass, and then one very still day while the Enterprise was becalmed(for this thread has been "becalmed") the crew of the Enterprise sights a mast slowly emerging over the horizon...threw the looking glass the cry comes down from the crows nest...."it's the Bonaventure!"

    H.M.S. Bonaventure last reported months ago battling the French on Bora Bora, then briefly in Hong Kong harbor before disappearing, some believing lost for good....but there she was being towed by row boats across the calm, here off the West Coast of Africa......and with a french frigate in pursuit.. a wild rowing contest in progress....a race across the Atlantic.....threw the looking glass a flag signal was interpreted...ROW FOR YOUR LIVES.....THE FRENCH ARE RIGHT BEHIND US! In the time it took for Captain Morgana to finish her noon tea, the Bonaventure had pulled along side. I step to the rail and yell...."pardon me, my lady, but would you happen to have some (grey poupon) i mean GUNPOWER!

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    I am an alien and I worship Area 51.  :laugh: 

    No, not really. Just joking again. :laugh:

    But I do not rule out the possibility of their existence. After all, it would be arrogant to assume that we are the only intelligent lifeforms in the universe, wouldn't you agree?

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    agreeded..