Just to be technical, silicon is the second most abundant element on the planet. Only oxygen exeeds it 
QUOTE(Ixion @ Dec 8 2005, 08:17 PM)
Let's see here.
-Will still be single.
-Will still be single.
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Ixion, as if. You're a lovely person (even if you scare me). Stop pouting. <3
Nice. 
Happy someone thinks it's funny.
QUOTE(Verithrax @ Dec 10 2005, 01:50 PM)
What will really happen:
1300 CE: The celebrations of the fourteenth century CE happen at Deepnight. Eight-lane highways cross the Basin and unite the the three cities, and everything is relatively peaceful as disputes are mediated by the LUN (League of United Nexi, formerly the Walkers).
1312 CE: The long-awaited sixth archetype (Bard) is released. The web forums go down due to excessive cries of "NERF!".
1314 CE: The twenty-fourth tradeskill, Nuclear Physics, is released. Several users of lesser tradeskills such as gourdcrafting, meatsmithing and system administration start to switch.
1320 CE: Murphy transcends Nuclear Physics before anyone else, reveals the trans skill (NuclearICBM).
1321 CE: Gaudiguch is finally released; it has 40% of the playerbase in it after a month.
1322 CE: Narsrim transcends Nuclear physics; Narsrim and Murphy start to duke it out using ICBMs.
1323 CE: New Celest is destroyed in the crossfire of the ensuing nuclear war.
1324 CE: Glomdoring's Master Ravenwood tree is blasted, and the recently cleansed forest is contaminated with nuclear waste; a stray rocket hits Ackleberry's Nexus but leaves the surrounding forest unscathed.
1325 CE:Â Magnagora survives the nuclear onslaught, but the fallout causes extensive mutations on the population; crossbreeding creates the new mutant race.
1326 CE: Verithrax comes out of inactivity in the LUN hall in Deepnight just to watch the carnage and scream "I TOLD YOU SO!". Hallifax and Gaudiguch have another 'Minor misunderstanding' which causes their utter destruction through nuclear weapons. Refugees from Gaudiguch flee and found the village of Raiduchi in the desert.
1327 CE: The LUN Building in Deepnight City gets blasted after Murphy and Narsrim get tired of the repeated screams from LUN members, during a brief truce. Verithrax and several others end up like this guy. Several important works of art stored in Deepnight, such as "Lobstrosities playing cards" and "Murphy and Narsrim holding hands" are destroyed. Arix starts selling t-shirts with Verithrax's face on the front and 'Viva la RevolucÃon!" on the back, making several thousand gold in 5.4 minutes and causing a credit market crash. The war kills the last few Artisans and Bookbinders; those and all other useless tradeskills are completely forgotten. Only alchemy, enchantment, herbs, tailoring, jewelry, poisons and forging remain.
1338 CE: The nuclear war comes to a halt as Murphy and Narsrim get shrubbed. Several screams of "SOD THIS, I'M GOING TO WORK FOR BLIZZARD!" echo through the IRE headquarters. Estarra leaves Lusternia to work in IRE's long-awaited fifth MUD.
1341 CE: Finding nobody willing to run Lusternia, Matt decides to do the work himself. The year 1341 CE marks the Coming of Sarapis to the Basin. The web forums are wiped clean.
1 CS (Coming of Sarapis): New New Celest is founded in the southern region of the Basin; the region Old New Celest resided in is renamed 'Spectre Hill'. The new playerbase (50 people who never played a MUD before) starts to complain about how Wisp and Flow are weak in the forums. Envoy reports asking that wisp be improved are sent by all of Serenwilde's guilds.
EDIT: For the 0.1% of you who don't get a clue, this is a work of SATIRE. It's supposed to make you laugh. I can't see the future and I doubt it'll look anything like this.
1300 CE: The celebrations of the fourteenth century CE happen at Deepnight. Eight-lane highways cross the Basin and unite the the three cities, and everything is relatively peaceful as disputes are mediated by the LUN (League of United Nexi, formerly the Walkers).
1312 CE: The long-awaited sixth archetype (Bard) is released. The web forums go down due to excessive cries of "NERF!".
1314 CE: The twenty-fourth tradeskill, Nuclear Physics, is released. Several users of lesser tradeskills such as gourdcrafting, meatsmithing and system administration start to switch.
1320 CE: Murphy transcends Nuclear Physics before anyone else, reveals the trans skill (NuclearICBM).
1321 CE: Gaudiguch is finally released; it has 40% of the playerbase in it after a month.
1322 CE: Narsrim transcends Nuclear physics; Narsrim and Murphy start to duke it out using ICBMs.
1323 CE: New Celest is destroyed in the crossfire of the ensuing nuclear war.
1324 CE: Glomdoring's Master Ravenwood tree is blasted, and the recently cleansed forest is contaminated with nuclear waste; a stray rocket hits Ackleberry's Nexus but leaves the surrounding forest unscathed.
1325 CE:Â Magnagora survives the nuclear onslaught, but the fallout causes extensive mutations on the population; crossbreeding creates the new mutant race.
1326 CE: Verithrax comes out of inactivity in the LUN hall in Deepnight just to watch the carnage and scream "I TOLD YOU SO!". Hallifax and Gaudiguch have another 'Minor misunderstanding' which causes their utter destruction through nuclear weapons. Refugees from Gaudiguch flee and found the village of Raiduchi in the desert.
1327 CE: The LUN Building in Deepnight City gets blasted after Murphy and Narsrim get tired of the repeated screams from LUN members, during a brief truce. Verithrax and several others end up like this guy. Several important works of art stored in Deepnight, such as "Lobstrosities playing cards" and "Murphy and Narsrim holding hands" are destroyed. Arix starts selling t-shirts with Verithrax's face on the front and 'Viva la RevolucÃon!" on the back, making several thousand gold in 5.4 minutes and causing a credit market crash. The war kills the last few Artisans and Bookbinders; those and all other useless tradeskills are completely forgotten. Only alchemy, enchantment, herbs, tailoring, jewelry, poisons and forging remain.
1338 CE: The nuclear war comes to a halt as Murphy and Narsrim get shrubbed. Several screams of "SOD THIS, I'M GOING TO WORK FOR BLIZZARD!" echo through the IRE headquarters. Estarra leaves Lusternia to work in IRE's long-awaited fifth MUD.
1341 CE: Finding nobody willing to run Lusternia, Matt decides to do the work himself. The year 1341 CE marks the Coming of Sarapis to the Basin. The web forums are wiped clean.
1 CS (Coming of Sarapis): New New Celest is founded in the southern region of the Basin; the region Old New Celest resided in is renamed 'Spectre Hill'. The new playerbase (50 people who never played a MUD before) starts to complain about how Wisp and Flow are weak in the forums. Envoy reports asking that wisp be improved are sent by all of Serenwilde's guilds.
EDIT: For the 0.1% of you who don't get a clue, this is a work of SATIRE. It's supposed to make you laugh. I can't see the future and I doubt it'll look anything like this.
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I was laughing like a maniac, my girlfriend thought I was insane.
NICE!! 
As for what I think will happen... I think 1000 years OOC is a bit on the long side... But, I can say a few things.
1. Silicon is not better for computer systems than pure carbon, its simply more abundant and so is cheaper to use. Pure carbon such as diamond can disperse and regulate heat far better than pure silicon. It can also stand up to more heat that silicon without taking damage.
2. I think if the human race lasts another 300 years without destroying itself through one form of weapon or another a breakthrough will occur involving the ability to manipulate atomic particles and sub-atomic particles to the point of being able to build material, supplies, etc, using only pure energy. Removing all need for farming, or other forms of food production, mining, industrial systems aside from manufacturing. Shortly after this technology is perfected, a race will begin to perfect a power system able to propperly sustain a production infrastructure such as this. Upon the completion of those two technology's all money will be rendered obsolete and the only reason for having any form of inter-person trade is for things that are unique to a persons own interest. Art, books, music, and other such things that a simple machine can't create. All standard office jobs will quickly be taken over by machines, and the entire human race will no longer be needed for maintaining their survival. Medical systems will advance at breakneck pace, extending human life from 150 to 300, and then longer as time goes on. Human beings will expand to mars, Luna (The moon), and all other teraformable planets in the solar system. Money will be no object, as energy production would no longer be limited. The human race grows from roughly 14 billion to 30 billion within one generation due to a lack of deaths. Immediate interstellar colonization is required. double the current human population every one hundred years from that point on, due to continually advancing medical systems. For every 20 billion people, teraform and colonize a new planet, 500 years after the invention of the original fabrication technology the human population will be approximately 500 billion.
Looking at that one could argue that the human races true purpose in the galaxy is that of an infestation or tumor.
As for what I think will happen... I think 1000 years OOC is a bit on the long side... But, I can say a few things.
1. Silicon is not better for computer systems than pure carbon, its simply more abundant and so is cheaper to use. Pure carbon such as diamond can disperse and regulate heat far better than pure silicon. It can also stand up to more heat that silicon without taking damage.
2. I think if the human race lasts another 300 years without destroying itself through one form of weapon or another a breakthrough will occur involving the ability to manipulate atomic particles and sub-atomic particles to the point of being able to build material, supplies, etc, using only pure energy. Removing all need for farming, or other forms of food production, mining, industrial systems aside from manufacturing. Shortly after this technology is perfected, a race will begin to perfect a power system able to propperly sustain a production infrastructure such as this. Upon the completion of those two technology's all money will be rendered obsolete and the only reason for having any form of inter-person trade is for things that are unique to a persons own interest. Art, books, music, and other such things that a simple machine can't create. All standard office jobs will quickly be taken over by machines, and the entire human race will no longer be needed for maintaining their survival. Medical systems will advance at breakneck pace, extending human life from 150 to 300, and then longer as time goes on. Human beings will expand to mars, Luna (The moon), and all other teraformable planets in the solar system. Money will be no object, as energy production would no longer be limited. The human race grows from roughly 14 billion to 30 billion within one generation due to a lack of deaths. Immediate interstellar colonization is required. double the current human population every one hundred years from that point on, due to continually advancing medical systems. For every 20 billion people, teraform and colonize a new planet, 500 years after the invention of the original fabrication technology the human population will be approximately 500 billion.
Looking at that one could argue that the human races true purpose in the galaxy is that of an infestation or tumor.
