Do You Believe Anything Is Possible?

[TheEnforcer]

Originally posted by Colin@Jan 16 2003, 09:33 AM
Do you believe anything is possible?

For example:

Must there necessarily be a cure for AIDS?

Can man remove violence from his nature?

Will AI robots, indistinguishable from humans, one day live in our homes?

Will we one day time travel? (Why hasn't anyone come back in time to tell us?)

Or are there things beyond man? Limitations imposed by the Universe, omnipotent beings, or other such mouse-like creatures?

As to your questions:

AIDS- yes I believe there is a cure. Only a matter of finding it.

Man-violence- as a species it is possible but EXTREMELY improbable!! Individually, yes. It is quite easy, just a matter of willpower.

AI robots- yes, I believe we will be able to go beyond TNG's Data and get life like androids.

Time travel- I'll quote Captain Kathryn Janeway on this one!!

"Ever since my first day on the job as a Starfleet Captain, I swore I'd never let myself get caught in one of these Godforsaken paradoxes. The past is the future, the future is the past, it all gives me a headache." Captain Janeway(a.k.a. Kate Mulgrew) from the episode Future's End Pt. I


I take the last question to be is there a Q in the universe? Of this I would have to say no. Aliens, yes, beings like the Q, no.