This is a response to the thread, not anyone who posted before me.
Time is only relative to the dimension you're in. Therefore, people age slower living on top of a mountain because their day is longer. Most people don't know this, but it's a true fact. Things slow down where there is less gravity and speed up where there isn't. It's not that brilliant considering what we know now. It makes sense. Given the science I was brought up with I come upon conclusions like this all the time. I'm no theorist or psychologist or chemist or physicist. But if you let your mind ponder a bit, it's amazing what you can come up with in theory. Einstein isn't revolutionary. He just focused on important thinking rather than getting caught up in stupid selfish antics like most of us do. Smoking, partying, and self realization all take time. Get past the self-realization stage, grow up, and begin to question society, human limitation, and what we have yet to conquer. You'll amaze yourself. There's not a damn reason we shouldn't already have Gliese 581c populated, except that human beings limit themselves. That's how I feel about it. We fight amongst ourselves like idiots. We have the tools to be organized and get our crap together. I hope the generation reading this will learn to lay down arms, and realize that violence only begets violence. It's not cliche, it's truth. I mean think about it, if I kill your family what are you likely to do? Be my friend? No. Someone has to start having integrity. I for one will never die for ANY nation unless my life or loved ones are directly threatened, right here at my doorstep. Wars start at the end of diplomacy. A good diplomat has no reason to lie. How often does the US exhaust diplomacy and throw the first punch? Here we are facing extinction because of global warming. There's a word that everyone on earth needs to learn. Sustainability. While we've been bickering and fighting and struggling we've been destroying our own homes doing it. Our world is in crisis because of war. Economic troubles and a need for prosperity is because we can't work together. If we could, we'd all be living like kings and flying spaceships right now. We'd each have our own. I'm not talking communism. I'm talking communalism. Big big difference. Today in America we trust each other less than we ever have before in the history of the nation. It's incredibly sad. People don't trust the government, or the cops, or their neighbor. And why should they? But it has to start somewhere. We've got emphasis on being men by being tough. The toughest thing to do is be a man and make yourself vulnerable. It's harder to be at gun point than it is to hold a gun and declare how tough you are. I desire a change in my world. Do you? Maybe it's become time that the people of EARTH stood as a nation, using the internet as a portal to unite under the law of decency. Under a true and just societal law. Under the concept of being good and doing what is right because it's cool to be ethical. Globalized business has put on that face lately. Maybe it's time we do it as uniting individuals. We all want it. There is no reason we can't. The only thing holding us back is a doubt in humanity and ourselves. What do we have to fear though? We're already at war with each other. We're all going to die someday, and we're facing a crisis that will end us all if we don't unite. I have no desire to be a world president, or a great leader. I just want to be one person who stands up, instead of constantly trying to stand out. Nobody here even knows my real name. It doesn't matter. My voice doesn't matter. Our voice does. Everyone on earth is different than you. Everyone. You are a minority. Every single person on earth feels the way you do. It is time we get over ourselves. Life isn't a struggle against life. It's a struggle against humanity and natural law. We can only change the human element, and learn more about nature. Let's do that. Anyone with me?