Intergalactic Celebrities: Where to Hide?

Today on Earth, celebrities are able to be followed everywhere, 24-7. In an advanced civilization where tracking technology and transportation are advanced multifold, where might celebrities be able to hide from the media? In an intergalactic society news will be many months delayed, if not years. (This is with information traveling at the speed of light) Any celebrity would be able to hide, though only for a limited time. Otherwise, they would have to live in a stealth environment.

Not Here For A While

Sorry I haven't been able to post for a while... the recession that we are in has been affecting me and my family.

Jurassic Park, Aliens and Genetic Engineering

In the book and film Jurassic Park, it introduces a relatively futuristic concept into a way for simple minds to comprehend. Would it really be easy enough to recreate a species with mosquitoes? So far we have been able to clone animals, and alter their genes. We have implanted anti-pesticide genes into crops. But how far would an advanced alien race go - and how much would they themselves be able to change? A civilization separated by many light-years might clone themselves, so that they could be politically connected. They could colonize any planet with little or no terraformation effort, instead modifying the genes in selected creatures to live on the planet. Also, any technologically advanced civilizations would create nanomachines, able to destroy germs at atomic level. But they would have had to come an extremely long way to be able to successfully do this - with NO MISTAKES WHATSOEVER. Today's genetic engineering may lead to mutations and unstoppable epidemics in the future, even from one small genetic tweak.

Does Civilizaion have Time Limits? Is extinction possible?

So far, humanity is a one-planet species. Even though we have the technology to be a multi-planetary civilization, we have decided to stay 'home'. Currently humanity is concerned with global warming, food shortages and the possibilities of self-destruction. If humankind becomes a space-faring species, we will have to worry less about these issues. Is it possible that humans are approaching the end of days on Earth? People talk of terraformation, but we do not implement it. Eventually, if we do not leave the planet, humans will die out.

How soon might it be until humans HAVE to evacuate Earth?

Galactic Recessions and Solar-System WideDark Ages?

As a species on this planet, humankind is doing quite badly compared to the past. Even though we are not in 'dark ages' as in the medieval ages, we are not advancing at a very visible rate. If aliens at the height of their galactic power were to go into the dark ages, via communication or teleportation failure, how might their society break up or devolve? If their government were one unified population, they would loose all of their power so long as they were not able to have control. Multiple city-state, or solar/star system societies would emerge out of the mayhem. It might be possible for this galactic society to wage 'civil' war upon itself. Hopefully, though, the aliens would have a lower-tech solution and travel using solar sails, nuclear engines or other technology that by then would be ages old. Hopefully humanity will emerge successfully from our present global recession and invest in the future.

Also, how close do you think we are to becoming a system-wide society?

A Helping Hand from Above

Humankind has always said that the Pyramids of Giza, Easter Island heads and many other diverse monuments were built with human ingenuity. But what if aliens came and helped humanity build these structures? They might have done this, and help begin the construction of civilization itself. What might the reasons be for a different, more advanced species to help primitive beings like ourselves to evolve? If life in space is rare, then these aliens might be helping us not out of kindness, but out of necessity. Also, although they see that we are primitive, they might want us to not destroy ourselves in the process of building our own civilization. There are many different reasons for alien beings to contact us..... hopefully, they might come back and check on our progress as a species and accept us in time to their society.

Human Architecture vs. Alien Architecture, Part II

Humans live on a planet with many diverse environments and weather, allowing us to create many different designs and structures from a multitude of substances. But what about other exoplanets, where there might not be as many materials? On an icy body where the ice never melts, the first primitive aliens that live there might eat the ice to make energy and to breathe. They might live in a hive or colony society, building tall ice 'mounds' like the termites do. On an arid planet like Mars, aliens might live deep underground near liquid aquifers. As it revolves around the sun, the aquifer will fill up and drain into any lower chambers dug out for storage. The architecture would be unlimited, because underground you can spread out in any direction and can be carved out in any shape possible.