# Cool things you hope will happen in your lifetime **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082 "2007-09-30T23:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/61 "2007-10-04T03:07:52Z")
[QUOTE=Neidhart] Not only has Sweden done the best of all nations in ensuring a decent standard of living for its working classes, the country is remarkably clean, well-run, orderly and efficient. (I visited Stockholm for two weeks last September.) If all the peoples of the world were to adopt the Swedish mindset and values, the planet would be a much better place. [/QUOTE] I’m sure you had a very nice nice time, but is two weeks really enough to know enough about a country to want it to rule the world? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/62 "2007-10-04T03:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Phantom Dennis] Someday I hope spaceflight will be cheep enough that I will be able to see the earth from orbit without needing to be a millionaire. [/QUOTE] The future is here, with satellite views on Internet. Just like looking out a porthole from geocentric low earth orbit, I would guess. I know they’re not real-time views, but on the other hand, you can zoom, pan, speed up, go anywhere instantaneously, and are at little risk from encounters with Near Earth objects. It satisfies the spirit of your OP also, in being a thing absolutely unavailable until very recently, and now commodity-priced (free, really) to be enjoyed by everyone. Thank you, scientists and engineers! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/63 "2007-10-04T04:32:02Z")
A threesome with Japanese twins. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/64 "2007-10-04T06:23:15Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I’m sure you had a very nice nice time, but is two weeks really enough to know enough about a country to want it to rule the world? :dubious: [/QUOTE] You will regret those words once we take over… ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/65 "2007-10-04T07:56:36Z")
[QUOTE=Neidhart] Not only has Sweden done the best of all nations in ensuring a decent standard of living for its working classes, the country is remarkably clean, well-run, orderly and efficient. (I visited Stockholm for two weeks last September.) If all the peoples of the world were to adopt the Swedish mindset and values, the planet would be a much better place. [/QUOTE] Please read P.J. O’Rourke about what Sweden has done to its economy with its socialist state. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/66 "2007-10-04T18:56:41Z")
Successful regeneration of nerves in the central nervous system. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/67 "2007-10-04T19:10:13Z")
Things I’d like to see: A cure for dental caries! And tooth regeneration, too, please. A cure for involuntary baldness. A youthening treatment: reset your body to age 25. A way to teach body language. A cure for myopia that would leave me the option of the extreme close-up vision I do enjoy (extra-adjustable lenses?). A retina and eye robust enough to be unharmed by the UV sensitivity we allegedly have, combined with a lens system that will transmit it. I want to be able to see more colours! Oh, and a flying car. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/68 "2007-10-04T20:05:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kyyrewyyoae] A human colony on an extrasolar planet (long shot, I know) **A KC Royals World Series Championship** Zombie attack [/QUOTE] I take it you were born after 1985? Mine’s just as improbable – a Stanley Cup championship for the St Louis Blues. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/69 "2007-10-04T20:10:06Z")
for richard ramirez to write me back ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/70 "2007-10-04T20:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] for richard ramirez to write me back [/QUOTE] I picture Rich sitting in his cell, letting out a long sigh when he sees that he has received yet another letter from you. His hand trembles. He contemplates the gas chamber as a welcomed release from this constant nagging letter writing campaign. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/71 "2007-10-04T20:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] I picture Rich sitting in his cell, letting out a long sigh when he sees that he has received yet another letter from you. His hand trembles. He contemplates the gas chamber as a welcomed release from this constant nagging letter writing campaign. 😃 [/QUOTE] well then that asshole BETTER SEND ME SOMETHING. god. what an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/72 "2007-10-04T21:04:16Z")
The World Series Champion Chicago Cubs. Then cure diseases, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, blah blah blah 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/73 "2007-10-04T21:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] well then that asshole BETTER SEND ME SOMETHING. god. what an asshole. [/QUOTE] Maybe he’s afraid that [she’ll](http://pine.zero.ad.jp/~zac81405/image/ramiz_wedding01.jpg) get jelous! ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082/74 "2007-10-04T21:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Maybe he’s afraid that [she’ll](http://pine.zero.ad.jp/~zac81405/image/ramiz_wedding01.jpg) get jelous! [/QUOTE] Yeah when I went into this whole death row pen pal thing I never actually expected to come out of it NOT murdered. That bitch will totally come after me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-hope-will-happen-in-your-lifetime/421082.md?page=3)