That is a possibility and the baby boomers slowly dying off. So that could be it too?
War, famine, disease, death--consequence of severe global warming. I am a so-called baby boomer. I see it encroaching on my lifetime, and certainly the generations that follow.
I fear at the amount of lives to be lost from all of this. It's frightening and a hard thought to take in. I want to try to give my son the best life I can, but I don't know where to start at with everything that is going on.
I'm getting a strong feeling that a significant UFO or alien contact event is going to happen this weekend.
A while ago I posted on this thread that the interstellar asteroid seemed to have been felt in some way by several science-fiction authors, as a number of its features appeared in science fiction novels dealing with asteroids. Especially "Rendevouz with Rama" from Arthur C. Clarke and "Footfall" by Larry Niven. The original post seems to have been lost.
Also, on the subject of population reduction, I know many people worry about this, but I don't get an impression of anything like that happening in any large scale. While I do get significant potential for WWIII and climate change causing famine in poor countries, I don't get the impression that the number of dead add up to something that could be described as "significant world population reduction". My impression is that population numbers stabilize around current levels during our lifetimes.
I do get, however, the feeling of a big change in human consciousness. This is what could give others the impression of human population reduction. They don't recognize future human consciousness because it's operating at a higher level. This is related to learning that we are no longer alone in the Universe.
Maria, thank you for this comment. It has sparked a missing piece that blocked my understanding/openness to many of the alien/consciousness timelines that have been calling me to understand since young adult years when the science fiction shelf in our small public library drew me in,one book after another.
When I tap into the realm of current events and their effects on consciousness, the potential exponentially huge ramifications in understanding life, death, and the entire nature of perception and perceived reality, manifestation etc. fills me with hope for all of us.
Maria, thank you for this comment. It has sparked a missing piece that blocked my understanding/openness to many of the alien/consciousness timelines that have been calling me to understand since young adult years when the science fiction shelf in our small public library drew me in,one book after another.
It's hard to tell with certainty, but it does look like the number of UFO sightings last weekend was unusually high, including some UFOs in space: one seen from the ISS, another on the moon, and another one flying by Mars seen by an amateur astronomer. It will be a matter of waiting till researchers sift through the data to see if any of them are particularly intriguing.
Meanwhile scientists claim to have solved the Fermi paradox and are declaring there is no other sentient life in the Universe.
I'd rather hold out hope that there are aliens. Right now we're doing a lousy job of being sentient. R1
I have a degree in maths and I find the Fermi Paradox argument interesting. The main issue is, as many people have pointed out, if you have little information (and we do), well, you have little information. You can't very well deduce a lot from little information.
So far, the evidence that we have is that:
(a) Planets are common, and Earth-like planets are very likely common as well.
(b) The basic chemistry of life is common
We don't know if life itself is common, but the evidence suggests that basic single-celled life is likely to be common. (This is based on computer simulations, and the fact that life on Earth seems to have appeared almost as soon as it was possible for it to survive).
What may be uncommon, and we don't know how uncommon (or if we do know, the governments of the world are keeping very quiet about it):
(a) Photosynthesis. We know it took a long time to develop on Earth.
(b) Multicellular life.
(c) Large land-based animals. Strictly speaking, maybe it isn't necessary for a technological species, but it's very hard to come up with ideas on how a marine creature could develop much of a technology. No fire allowed, for starters.
(d) Sufficient intelligence to gain complete control over food sources. On Earth, it looks like we went very fast from agriculture to a highly technological society. Most animals spend most of their time looking for food. It looks likely that once an animal is intelligent enough to control their own food sources, and reduce the time spent looking for food to a fraction, the free time plus the intelligence is almost guaranteed to lead them to great things.
We should soon have an answer to (a), because photosynthesis changes the composition of the atmosphere of a planet, and we'll probably soon be able to figure out the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanets. There are several types of photosynthesis here on Earth, though it's mostly dominated by the kind green plants have. But in other planets the dominant type could be another. Having several types of photosynthesis on Earth suggests that even if it's rare, it may not be terribly rare.
I can't think of any way of figuring out (b) or (c) from a distance, so the next answer will almost certainly be directly (d). And interestingly, chances are that the answer will come pretty soon (assuming we don't have it already and governments are keeping very quiet). Because once our instruments are good enough, we should be able to pick out any signal in our galaxy that other intelligent beings in our galaxy are sending out for the purposes of making first contact.
Maria, I totally agree. Excellent post. Zoron.