Our space program is a joke. They arent working to colonize other planets. Our last shuttle up was to collect garbage....

If an asteroid was heading to Earth (for the sake of argument) and it was going to hit in lets say 32 years' date=' we would develop more technology in those 32 years then we have ever...ironic isnt it?[/quote']

 

just like all the technological boosts from the cold war.

Futureology is one of the most innacuate sciences (if you can call it a science) becasue even if we know technology improves exponetially we still think laterally. Its like the famous futureologist who predicted that computers would grow to such size and cost that only goverments could afford them, then look at today.

Or for example when the airships were first invented people predicted that in a few decades there would be fleets of then carrying people across the atlantic.