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My answer is still in the work of progress stage and not yet finished, if you are still interested to read further, you can visit it for some updates since I surely need a bit of time to write it down.This remark will be removed if I see my answer as completed so far.To see, what’s changed or new, please refer to the change log at the end of my answer.Yes, I have created my own fictional universes, not just one.Here I describe one of mine and here’re the links to two others I have created:Michael Staengl's answer to Roman Empire: What would the world be like today if Rome had never fallen?Michael Staengl's answer to How would you design your own fictional vampires?A bit of real world information.I started to write on this fictional universe mid 1990s and after having no new ideas, I stopped writing on it in around 2005, later, I merged and restarted this universe with the creation of the future edition of my first large scale alternate Rome I just linked to.Now, since January 2020 I have new ideas for my Laicarinia Universe and continue to write on this old fiction of mine.I took some inspirations from following science fiction series.The German Perry Rhodan Series.A bit of Star Trek.A bit of Babylon5A bit of Stargate.A bit of some ring world containing universes (Halo, Banks, Niven).And a lot of homegrown ideas.I then wrote it parallel to my alternate Rome timeline not yet combining both universes.Back in the second half of the 1990s to the mid 2000s I not yet knew about the Kardashew Scale.Now to the description of this universe I’m about to introduce:—————————The Laicarinia-Universe—————————The premise - a.k.a. The History:We are writing the year 616′546 CE, or the year 566547 Galactic Unity Time (G.U.T.)Mankind has developed into a kind of Kardashev IV civilization after having to fight countless wars, experience long periods of peace.29th century CE, Mankind became interstellar.It expands into the Milky Way Galaxy, discovers ancient interstellar civilizations like the Jendarek (Mostly humanoid, the Gray aliens), the Angaronians, the Zhretaria (Reptilians, often at war with the Jendarek), the Old Taremurians.Humanity divides into interstellar fractions:The Terrans.The New-Teramurians in the 5th Millennium CE (who named themselves in reverence to the extinct old Taremurians).The Novaromani in the 7th Milennium (who were interested in a recreation of the old Roman Republic thy did in the Centaurus A galaxy named Shiokran by most of its inhabitants).The Teretorianies, named themselves after the Andromeda galaxy territories once colonized by the Terran Empire, which once gained independence.The NeaTeramurians (Teramurians of a mirror universe in which they were an evil power. They tried to invade the prime reality but failed and got convinced by the prime reality Teramurians to engage in a much more constructive, liberal way of life)The Telramun (A branch of Teramurians, relocated into the past by the Ohiasians, to help mankind develop even much further.The C’in. Once Terrans who wanted to recreate an ideal version of the ancient Chinese Empire, located in the Antila Dwarf Galaxy and the neighboring one.The Teramurians were the most idealist ones and often fought for a constructive, mutually tolerant and open minded scientifically oriented society.They encountered a vast number of metaintelligences, cosmic forces high on the Kardashew scale.Mankind, alongside the galactic leading power of the Jendarek had to fight any wars and conflicts alongside the Ohiasians and metaintelligences, permanently collective beings from the positive way of existence which means:Respecting each other.Letting one and others mutually influence in some ways.Learn new things.Try to bring peace into the universe.Establish a scientifically enlightened society.Still to do, write in some more historical events.49999 CE, the Galactic Alliance introduces the new more unified calendar “Galactic Unity Time”Still to do, write in some more historical events.After many dozens of Millennia, the Federation of Nova-Terian (In the then existing general language of the humans “Thanial Orvan Nerin-Terian”) had been founded, consisting of all human nations except of the C’in who aren’t ready to abolish their monarchy but the C’in has a close association treaty with the Federation, hat been founded.During one of the more “recent” wars, the alliance around the humans, now a leading cosmic force, the Ohiasians, Jendarek, Haijin, Ikarians and many others, they managed to defeat the Gro’hna’s, a ruthless species of conquerors and one of the arch enemies to the much more friendly Ohiasians for millions of years.After that, during another war with another negative cosmic level civilization, the Sapians (after the scientific term “Homo Sapiens”, as the humans call themselves politically and ethnically) constructed their own new home galaxy, the Sapian-Galaxy about 5.2 million light years from the Milky Way galaxy which by then was renamed into “Narhenta” after the term, a minor civilization used to not to prefer an old and long established major power gave the galaxy.The first war with the new major enemy, the Lav, ended with a victory of mankind and its allies.The Federation of Nova TerianPoliticsThe Federation of Nova Terian in the year 566547 G.U.T. is a multigalactic alliance of the six human nations mentioned above.The main territory is the Sapian Galaxy with 320 billion stars in its main disc. The galaxy overall has a diameter of about 150000 light years. The matter, globular cluster and dark-matter halo has an overall diameter of about 300000 light years.It is constructed as follows:In the center, there’s a large bulge with the central galactic and other large black holes, the twelve spiral arms were created in a perfectly even distribution. On the outer area, there’s a thick additional denser ring of stars. The globular clusters are distributed in an even way as well as the matter bridges surrounding the galaxy.The galaxy Sapian is protected by a variety of force fieldsHere, in the new main territory, the Sapians have created several billions of star systems but they just have settled about 12.5 million of them, planning far into the future.In addition, there are massive ring worlds with a diameter of roughly 5.5 million kilometers and a width of up to 150000 kilometers thus having an inner surface about 5000 times that of Earth, they created more than 6500 of them.The overall population of the Sapians is roughly 405′200′000 Billion.In the capital system, the Sapian system there are about 14′500 Billion inhabitants thanks to two smaller ring-worlds.They love to have a multitude of settlement space, be it their planets, their ring worlds, the vast, endless virtual cyberspaces, the smaller space habitats.Additional territories are in the Milky Way Galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Centaurus A galaxy, the Ohiana galaxy, the galaxy Gronjara, this making the Federation a multi-galaxy interstellar nation.The Federation of Nova-Terian is governed by 20 higher Consules, a kind of ministers without the need for a president. If they need to come to some decisions quickly, they can establish a temporary collective, called the “Master-Consule”.Then, there’s the Federation senate. A council of the stellar provinces and the overall Federation administrative, mostly carried out by the Syntronic-Computers, a successor of the quantum computers and the official authorities whose states officials doesn’t need to delve too deep in the administrative works.After this, we have the regional plane with the Consularies, stellar provinces with several hundreds to some thousands of colonized solar systems. They are governed by lesser Consules as the governors.The solar system plane is governed by local ministers and magistrates.Aside of this political structure, they have the courts.Often, large portions of the population of a single Consularie, a single solar system or even the whole Federation takes part in the decision making by often forming temporary collective beings thus granting the most sophisticated form of a swarm intelligence and thus removing the risk of running into lawsuits against a large project.EconomyThe economy of the Federation of Nova-Terian / Thanial Orvan Nerin-Terian can be called a free market economy with a strong solidarity aspect with the lesser lucky ones and a human approach to gain the rightful income by the founders and employees of enterprises.Due to the long, if not limitless life span a Sapian entrepreneur doesn’t need do accumulate his wealth with brute force methods like in the paleo-capitalist societies of the late Terran Antiquity. They can do it slow, allowing the employees to have a mostly relatively stress free work environment.The taxation and the amount of all other states collected money is moderate. Depending on the Consularie, there’s only a rate of about 25 to 30 % taxes on the income.The currency is the Galactic Credit.An average new zero-g-car costs about 12′000 Gal.-Cred’s, a 30 cm long loaf of bread with a diameter of up to 25 cm can be bought by spending about 0.55 Gal.-Cred’s. A casual interstellar, intergalactic or even interuniversal cruise on one of the luxury cruise lines may cost between 4500 to up to 150′000 Gal.-Cred’s.The Galactic Credit is the leading currency in all galaxies of the local galaxy group and some of the neighboring groups as well due to the vast economical reach of the Federation and any smaller interstellar nations are accepting it as a secondary currency due to its stability.Biology and abilities.The Sapians have a natural life expectancy of around 22.5 millennia in their biological original bodies. They have reached the level of “Immortality for everyone” by medical life prolonging measures, the move into the cyberspaces, cloning of new bodies from a primary digitally stored genetically map thus removing the cloning errors from the copy of the copy of the copy.Their senses are heightened, they have some lower superhuman capabilities like a much larger stamina, speed, agility, they can see in infra red, ultraviolet if they concentrate on and they can hear infra sound and ultrasound at will too.Each Sapian has a wide variety of para-physical abilities like:- Telepathy (1–2 light years in range).- Telekinesis (up to 450000 tons, or the USS Gerald R. Ford plus three RMS Titanics and some additional buildings at once). They can project a city destruction level telekinetic shockwave. Some Sapians mastered the creation of new matter out of air due to the precision of their telekinesis down to the subatomic level.- Teleportation (up to 850 AU).- Energy projection (City destruction level, self protecting or healing),Many Sapians have these additional abilities:Observing the hyperspace, manipulating matter on the subatomic level, self transformation into a self-contained plasmatic energy being for up to ten days (thus destroying all in-body trans-humanist enhancements thus making classical trans-humanism already an outmoded concept).Sapians with an insatiable psychology are obliged to wear a highly developed para-jammer which deactivates the telekinesis and energy projection abilities.Many young protointerplanetary civilizations prayed to lesser gods.They are still mostly naturally born due to the close bondage between the mother and the child via telepathy.They have genetically self-engineered in a way, a Sapian from the 617th millennium CE is indistinguishable from a human of the early 21st century since they liked this appearance and since it allows them to do time traveling missions without being different in appearance.A pregnancy lasts, like from the beginning of the existence of Homo Sapiens for up to 40, seldomly 41 weeks.The Sapian has a childhood and adolescence which lasts um to the 21st year of his life.The adulthood lasts until the death.During the early adulthood, a Sapian would look like a 30 to 36 years old western human from the early 21st century. This lasts to the 10th or 12th millennium of his life.During the later adulthood, a Sapian looks like an up to 45 to55 years old human from the early 21st century. This goes from the 10th to the 18th millennium of life.In the late adulthood which goes from the 18th millennium of life to the death, a Sapian looks like a a very healthy 55 to 65 years old western human from the early 21st century.The final ageing starts in the last three centuriesCulture:The Sapian culture is an enlightened culture with a strong approach on gender equality and politeness.Due to the longevity of each individual Sapian, the society have become a kind of conservative and very stable.To the Sapians, they already experimented with virtually every kind of state, ideology, religion, philosophy. Since the Federation has the fine tuning to allow a Sapian a lot of freedoms and responsibilities (which makes life more exciting) combined with the sufficient safety in a stable society they feel that they don’t need such experiments anymore.To them, the startling and chilling short life spans of late ancient western humans was what drove their early ancestors to this rapid cycles of changes.The Sapians are dividing their own history like this:The antiquity was the epoch of the humans from the invention of writing by the Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Chinese to achieving the wider spread interplanetary development stage. To them, guys like Elon Musk paved the way to the next stage in their history.The era of the industrial revolution to the rise of humanity to the interplanetary epoch from roughly 1770 to 2070 is considered the late antiquity.The ending of the Western Roman Empire and the late Han-Dynasty in old China from the 3rd to the 5th century CE marked the end of the early antiquity.The solar medieval epoch was the interplanetary stage of the human development.The reaching of the interstellar epoch in the 29th century CE marked the beginning of the newer human epochs.Despite the fact that in most areas and regions of the Federation the Sapians have reached a post scarcity society, there still a bit of poverty left at the economic fringes of the Federation.Since the Sapians have a solidarity driven society, there are a lot of charity events and privately sponsored welfare programs aside of the states operated social welfare.Often unexpected by much younger civilizations, they still enjoy the simple things in life which are even considered the simple things of life by a late protointerplanetary society like that on Earth of the early 21st century (like having long strolls at beaches, in the forests, having family time).They have retained old ways of life like agriculture and at the same time, other Sapians living the ultra-high-tech lifestyle expected from a Kardashew-IV civilization.They respect every lifestyle.Religion almost vanished, only about 5 to 10 percent are still mildly religious and it is respected by the vast majority of the Sapians.Sapians love higher education, higher culture like operas, very sophisticated art events as well as wild and hedonistic parties (well, without that having dirty sex all around thing) they’re celebrating on their worlds and ring-worlds.Small kids are already able to solve mathematically questions and problems, even geniuses according to the early 20th to early 21st centuries would fail. They do it for joy and entertainment. And at the same time, the same small kids are playing in the cyberspaces, the real world like every human kid of all epochs of humanity.Sapians have a deep sense of irony and humor.Mind set - Generalizing description:The Terran Sapians are more the pragmatic ones.The Teramurian Sapians are the most idealistic ones.The Novaroman Sapians as well as the NeaTeramurians are still having a military spirit and despite the abolishment of the concept of a states protected aristocracy, many old formerly noble Novaromani families have retained much of their former aristocratic lifestyle.The Telramun Sapians are idealistic.The Teretorianie Sapians are a mixture of all above plus having a knack of engaging into trade.Cities:Many Sapian cities like the Federation capital of Terian-City on the natural planet New-Terian have populations in the hundreds of Millions and this is one of a single city fully dominating its metropolitan area. Other conglomerates of smaller cities can have a population in the dozen of billions.The cities are build with a lot of light, lush parks, other recreation centers, the architecture can be daring/fancy and can consist of a crystalline-like material. They are very colorful.And there are small villages only having a population of about 50′000.Toroidal Space habitats.Since they often are so large, they can built in 1:1 maps of revered planets like Earth. Mostly they have a population of Earth mid 20th century multiplied by about 400 to 5000 thus making them relatively sparsely populated.The Federated Starfleet of the Federation of Nova-TerianThis is the military branch of the Federation. During peace times, it maintains a fleet of about 800′000 mid sized to larger space crafts. During war times they can deploy dozens of millions of space crafts, trillions of larger drones.The recruitment base of the Starfleet lies at around 405′200 billion Sapians.The uniform is white with a holographic blue shimmering, a stripe on the left side of the uniform blouse which indicates the department in which the soldier or officer is working, rank insignia pins. It has nanotech parts like a nanotech-crystalline battle armor (a bit like an Iron Man armor mark 350′000).It is elegant and more simple.Normally, they have a professional and polite demeanor but the crews are free to use the private and personal address when interacting if they agree on mutually.They don’t see the need for a way too exact military salute anymore. They feel like they outgrewn such a need.Technology and science of the FederationThe Federation of Nova-Terian / The Sapians have developed these feats:Energy usage in the level of several large galaxy clusters.Intercosmic engineering, this means:- They can create whole galaxies, can relocate existing ones.- They can create new real world artificial universes and not just large additional cyberspace realms. They do it by 1st, creating an artificial curved brane on the quantum foam sublayer of the omniverse and the local multiverse, 2nd by manipulating this brane to create the needed materials to be able to create new smaller artificial galaxies. 3rd by forching this brane to expand inside to create the new small scale “pocket universe” which meassures several hundred of millions of light years. But they not yet saw the need to create an artificial universe with a flat geometry of spacetime. They “only” created a small pocket universe as a kind of prototype.Manipulation of the laws of nature.Time travel.Mastery of creating new timelines but they are very carefully with that.Mastery of all kinds of matter manipulation down to the Planck-Length and on the most advanced scientifically facilities in the centers of the Federation even below the Planck-Length.Matter creation out of the hyperspace- and/or vacuum/dark energy.Creation of a pseudo-crystalline material out of psionic and condensed spacetime-hyperspace-energy which can be used to create space vessels, living crystalline structures in their vast industrial facilities often spanning whole solar systems.Their weapons on small space crafts can destruct whole solar systems with ease.Their large scale weapons can destruct galaxies.Offensive Weapons are:Saranjer cannon. It fires a multidimensionally enhanced beam of ultra high energy, it can even evaporate white dwarfs when mounted on small space crafts or even neutron stars when mounted on larger space crafts. It is one of the most dangerous and powerful weapon systems the Sapians knows.This weapon was developed by the civilization of the Kassierie which became a permanent collective entity, called “Metaintelligence”. It was named after the Kassiere scientists who once, several dozen of million years ago lead the development of this cannon. It was adopted by the Federated-Starfleet of the Federation of Nova-Terian.Phalanx-Weapon-System. It creates a narrow or wide spacetime shockwave with a strong normalspace to hyperspace fluctuating rift which destroys most things in its way. This shockwave can move with FTL-speed.Psionic cannon. It projects and enhances all the psionic abilities of the collective Sapian crew of a Starfleet-space-vessel, so, they can have an unimaginable wide variety of results.Multi Variable Cannon (MVC-cannon, -rifle, -handgun). It combines an:Ultra hot laser beam enclosed by a normal-to-hyperspace, warp-hull field thus enabling the laser to move with FTL-speed. This hull field weakens the defensive energy fields of the target as well as the molecular structural integrity of the hardware.Matter disintegrator. Dissolves the binding forces inside molecules and atoms.Stunning ability.Gamma-Ray-Modus, when they need to exterminate just the life on a planet and not destroying the buildings and some of the technology.Nanobot-swarms. Which can destroy planetary facilities, enemy soldiers and other thing. These swarms can be used as a defensive measure as well against enemy nanobot-swarms.Missiles of a wide variety.The largest classical space-to-space missiles have a blast yield in the trillions of Yottatons of TNT. (Nearly equal to a type 01 supernova).The most destructive are the Spacetime-Missiles.Their warheads creates a detonation of spacetime even down to the Planck-length which inevitable destroys everything since this forced creation of spacetime overcomes even the strong binding forces in the atoms plus gravity. The effective blast radius can be 5000 meters up to the normal maximum of 4500 light years up to the truly devastating ones with a blast radius of 550′000 light years which is sufficient to destroy galaxies.Missiles with normal-to-hyperspace and psionically enhanced abilities like gravitational weapons with either creating artificial black holes or anti-gravity wells.All missiles can do smaller time jumps as well.Defensive weapons are:A wide variety of force fields.The material from the space crafts itself, near indestructible by lesser, read, Kardashew-III civilizations.projected pseudo copies of the space craft.All kinds of jamming fields.The Sapians found out, that our local universe, called Laicarinia-Universe by the oldest civilizations like the Ksssiie, Kassierie, Ohiasians etc., is just one of a local multiverse group.Each single universe of the local multiverse group has a near infinite amount of alternate timelines.A single multiversal group mostly consists of several trillions if not quadrillions of individual parallel universes with different laws of physics, curvature and outside appearance, embedded in the local low energy hyperspace.There’s probably an infinite number of multiversal groups.Our local Laicarinia-Universe has a flat space-time geometry thus making it infinite on the inside. Only three of the 11 spatial dimensions have unfolded filled up with time, created and propelled by the Sarelin-Particles thus creating the space-time.From the outside, it looks like a kind of flat and at the same time three dimensional manifold thanks to the unfolded spatial dimensions.It is surrounded by the local hyperspace and lies on its base quantum-brane which is connected to the infinite continuum of the quantum-foam from which every new universe emerges.The natural afterlife, aside of the artificial in the virtual cyberspace universes, takes place in the 11th spatial dimension still unfolded in our local universe. Here, this dimension has some kind of holographic pseudo 3D characteristics thus allowing the commonalities of all species to exist here.After a natural death, not prevented by quickly uploading the mind into the cyberspace, the essence of a person, its life force enters the 11th dimension and unites with the commonality of each species. Here, it’s slowly mostly dissolved, only a rest remains.The stronger this remaining rest is, the stronger the memories of a past life of a reincarnated essence is.Sapians with an exceptionally excellent telepathy can contact this commonality to gain new knowledge, get into touch with the rests of the essences of deceased friends and relatives.Other civilizations, beings and organizations:HCFO = High Cosmic Force of Order, a kind of Kardashew VI beings.MI = permanent collective beings, Meta Intelligence, mostly a kind of Kardashew V being.The Jendarek:Gray skinned short humanoids with black facet eyes, they founded their interstellar space nation in around 101′000 BCE.They call their nation “Kolvarlil-Ehrai-Jendarek” (United peoples of the Jendarek-Nation). They are allies of the Ohiasians and Sapiens and in the 567th millennium G.U.T (617th millennium CE) a bit of the slightly older “brothers” to the Sapians.The Ohiasians:The first Kardashew Type IV (and already leaning a bit towards the Type-V stage) civilization the humans, before they became the Sapians, encountered knowingly.They are a species of self contained plasmatic energetic beings.The Ohiasians founded their intergalactic and interuniversal civilization in around 48 million BCE.They are an old and wise mentor species and they’re protecting those they’ve sworn to protect.The Ksssiie:The oldest civilization known in the known part of the observable universe.They are a Type V civilization.They founded their interuniversal, inter-multiversal civilization in around 600 million BCE.The Angaronians:The Gro’hna’s:They are the second Type IV civilization the humans in the first millennia's of their interstellar epoch encountered.They want to rule the whole universe with an iron fist. This is a result of unimaginable evil things the Gro’hna’s themselves experienced during their earliest stages of an interplanetary and interstellar civilization.So, they’ve decided to become even harsher, tougher, more power hungry than their predecessors.Before becoming a plasmatic self contained energetic species, they were once an organic species which looked like a mixture between a slender deer and a kind of hare.They founded their intergalactic empire in around 46 million BCE.The Kassierie:The Quanmorians:This is a philosophical warrior monk order which kind-of reactivated some parts of the ancient Earth’s Samurai culture with a modernized set of moral principles.They were founded within the Teramurian society before the foundation of the Federation of Nova-Terian and the introduction of the G.U.T. calendar.Today (as of the 567th millennium G.U.T.) they are divided into a decentralized network of independent orders.One of the most famous of these orders is the Inaro-Franka order founded by the Teramurian Selaron Inaro-Franka.They have a gender equality approach, don’t believe in gods but know about the existence of permanent collective beings assembled from species’ of once individual persons.Due to the Quanmorian honor code, they fight with weapons, seemingly “primitive” on the first sight:- Katana like swords, but with matter disintegrating or thermoplasmatic hull fields.- Bow and arrow, with explosive arrows, additional targeting systems.- Shuriken with small disintegrator fields.- The usage of the Sapian para-physical abilities.- Virtual-Matter shields.- Armor made in a futurist Samurai like style.But if it has to be and out of pragmatism, they are willing to use modern weapons like MVC-Rifles and handguns (see technology), small battle robots, zero-g-tanks, space fighter jets.The Loratans:The Dahlkians:The Hoshin:HCFO Elhimar:This is an individual collective being, called a high-metaintelligence on the Kardashew VI-stage of development.He/She/? can traverse the whole omniverse create new universes at will, destroy existing ones.Among the last Christians still recognizable as Christians by the standards of the 21st century CE (the Terran Late Antiquity as seen by the Sapians in the 567th millennium G.U.T.), it was once speculated that Elhimar once created humanity and the universe due to the similar sounding of his name with one of the Jewish/Christian/Muslim God “Elohim”.This claim once was refuted by Elhimar himself who learned about that myth from the Sapians and their allies, the Ohiasians.MI Priest of Angaron:The Omniversal Codex:This is the ultimate center of the whole omniverse. It rules all physically laws, shapes the omniverse and when it awakes, it could destroy all realities, all universes if it wants to.The name comes from the Ohiasians. The Jendarek adopted this name as well as mankind even before the foundation of the Federation of Nova-Terian and before the humans became the Sapians.Other names by other species are:- The great sleeping Entity (Kassierie).- The Great All Initiating (Ksssiie).- The Eye of All Being (Naehiasan).- The Dreaming Dancer in Every To Be (Angaronians).- God (Among Sapian theists who developed an intergalactic Neo-Christianity).It can be nudged to produce a desired artificial real-world universe and to modify existing universes. But this has to be done extremely carefully to not to accidentally endanger the existence of other universes or even local multiversal-groups.On the outside, its a kind of flattened oval with about 220 times 160 times 90 millions of light years but on the inside, it seems about 800 times as large.It is placed in the ultra high energy plane of the hyperspace and oscillates with a frequency of up to 45′000 gigahertz in a narrow time frame following or predating the current present time of the omniverse.It needs at least the technologically advancment of the Sapians to reach it. No lesser civilization can do it.To navigate inside, even a single human of the 617th Millennium CE won’t be able to accomplish this. It needs a temporary human collective combined with the sheer power of a fully sentient syntronical being to understand what’s going on here.It allows only members of species with a certain psionic imprint/aura to operate inside it and the Sapians have this aura.All lesser civilizations are thrown out of the Omniversal Codex.As far as known, it’s the only existing Kardashew VII being in the whole of the omniverse.The Change Log - a.k.a Updates02nd March 2020, First update after submitting the answer:- Added the economy of the Federation, some cultural aspects (like how the Sapians are dividing their historical epochs) and the afterlife in the science section. - Went on typo hunt.19th, 20th March 2020:- Added some details to the offensive weapons, the Spacetime-Missile.- Added the first facts about other species.- Added some details about the Omniversal Codex.- Added some details about the para-psychical abilities.20.03.2020 nightly update:- Reworked the section about weapons- Added some details about the Quanmorians.

The question has been well answered up to this point, but the short answer is the technology will likely be available for download in “Beta” mode as early as 2017. But, 2018 would be where I would place a bet if I only had one chip. Full production will likely be 2020 or 2021.The long answer is it depends on who you ask:Volvo:•“Today, we are close to creating cars capable of truly autonomous driving that will revolutionise the way you travel and change society for the better. Here is our guide to what autonomous driving means and how it came about.” – Volvo Cars•In 2017, 100 autonomous cars each will introduced as a trial in Gothenburg, London, and China. The call this the “Drive Me Project”. Will likely not work in all weather situations.•They have have partnered with Autoliv, an existing supplier of active safety systems. – Volvo Cars•Volvo is using Nvidia’s GPU-based deep-learning system. – Digital Trends | Technology News and Product Reviews•Interim steps in self-parking cars and additional active safety systems.•Vision: No fatalities in a Volvo car by 2020.•Volvo believes Level 2/3 autonomy is an unsafe solution and not an endpoint.•Volvo is "taking responsibility both for crash events, and we're also programming it for extreme events like people walking in the road even where they're not supposed to be. There's a massive amount of work put into making it handle a crash or conflict situations.“ -Trent Victor, senior technical leader of crash avoidance at Volvo - The Verge•“It's mostly a difference of autonomous design philosophy for Tesla and Volvo. Tesla believes drivers can be trusted to make the appropriate decision with regards to their vehicle while Volvo wants to keep the driver from even putting himself into the position of getting into trouble with its autonomous tech.” – The Verge•“Volvo plans to roll out a system similar to Autopilot in 2017, but by 2020 Coelingh said Volvo’s self-driving technology will be so advanced that no supervision will be needed, and the driver can instead do something else while behind the wheel.” – Tech Insider•“The company has stated that it will accept full liability when its vehicles are in autonomous mode, and has announced plans to expand its pilot program to China and the United States. Volvo has followed rivals like BMW in setting 2021 as a target deployment date, though it is still looking for its own collaborators to work with.”•“Volvo has also partnered with Microsoft to further its research efforts in this space. Read More: Volvo, Wired, IB Times”– Venture Capital Database•"It's our ambition to have a car that can drive fully autonomously on the highway by 2021. […] This technology is something as a carmaker you cannot develop by yourself.“ - CEO Hakan Samuelsson, Automotive NewsUber:•"Travis [Kalanick] recently told me that in 2020, if Teslas are autonomous, he'd want to buy all of them," said Steve Jurvetson, a board member and early investor in Tesla. "And I was like, 'What?' And he's like 'All 500,000 estimated for 2020 production, I want them all.' But he couldn't get a return call from Elon, so he was like, whatever.“ – Tech Insider•Last January, Uber poached 1/3 of Carneige Mellon’s Top Robotics Lab to Build Self-driving Cars:“All told, Uber snatched up about 50 people from Carnegie Mellon, including many from its highest ranks. That's an unusually high number of people to leave at once, and accounted for about a third of the staff NREC had at the end of last year. Many were top employees, including David Stager, who had been there since 1997 and is now Uber's lead systems engineer; Jean-Sébastien Valois, a senior commercialization specialist who had been with NREC for nearly 12 years (and lists himself as "on leave" on CMU's site); and Anthony Stentz, NREC's director for the past four and a half years, who had been at the center since 1997. News of some of the departures was reported earlier this year by TechCrunch and The Pittsburgh Business Times.” – The Verge•Uber continues to raise cash (currently $13B + available credit) and rumors of an early IPO are starting.•“Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, has indicated in a tweet that he expects Uber’s fleet to be driverless by 2030. The service will then be so inexpensive and ubiquitous that car ownership will be obsolete.(Source: Mobility Lab, 2015-08-18)” – Gearing up to save lives, reduce costs, resource consumption•“Uber China has removed a major capital drain; the deal coincided with news that the company would plow $500M into a global mapping initiative. Read More: New York Times, The Verge” – Venture Capital DatabaseGoogle:•“Google has never given a formal deadline, but has suggested it's working on having the technology ready by 2020.” – Tech Insider•2020 Implied by Chris Urmson, Director of Self-Driving Cars at Google[x], in March 2015 at TED•“Google has put in more than 1.2 million miles with its test vehicles using software to drive themselves, and has estimated it could have a fully autonomous car ready for public roads by about 2020.” – Bloomberg.com•Similar to Volvo, Google believes Level 2/3 autonomy is an unsafe solution and not an endpoint.•“In May 2014, the company announced plans to test an extremely compact self-driving two-seater; a YouTube video shows a gray and white vehicle, a kind of ladybug on wheels, with an unusually facelike front grille. It won't have a steering wheel or brakes. Indeed, it's designed to go no faster than 25 mph, and appears intended for short runs on, say, college campuses, or in dense urban areas. (A Google spokesperson says the speed is capped at 25 mph for testing purposes.) What Google hasn't done, despite much publicity around its automotive efforts, is make any moves toward selling its self-driving car. "This is still a research project for them," insists Vogt. But Google has announced it will build 100 prototypes of that autonomous two-seater, working to refine its technology, and reports circulated in late 2014 that Google was seeking an automotive partner to bring that car to market, though it may take up to five years to do so. ” – Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs•“Google’s self-driving car team is expanding and hiring more people with automotive industry expertise, underscoring the company’s determination to move the division past the experimental stage.”•“The operation now employs at least 170 workers, according to a Reuters review of their profiles on LinkedIn” -http://tmsnrt.rs/1oxX4Lg•“In the past four weeks (March 2016), Google has advertised nearly 40 new positions on the team, and many are related to manufacturing. The team currently has six people with such experience, including purchasing, supplier development and supply chain management.”•“Google’s team is being assembled by John Krafcik, an industry veteran who previously headed Hyundai’s U.S. operations and is an expert in product development and manufacturing. Krafcik joined Google in September 2015.”•“Paul Luskin, was hired last month as operations manager, according to his Linkedin profile. An engineer with stints at Jaguar Cars, Ford and Japanese supplier Denso Corp, Luskin most recently was president of Ricardo Defense Systems, a unit of Britain’s Ricardo PLC, according to the Linkedin profile. Google hired industry veteran Andy Warburton in July to head the vehicle engineering team, according to his Linkedin profile. Warburton spent two years as a senior engineering manager at Tesla and 16 years as an engineering manager at Jaguar. A third auto veteran, Sameer Kshisagar, joined Google in November as head of global supply management on the self-driving car team. Kshisagar is a manufacturing expert who previously worked for GM, according to his Linkedin profile.”•“Google has said previously that it intends to ready the technology for a marketable self-driving car by 2020, but it may never manufacture vehicles itself.”•“Krafcik and Chris Urmson, director of the car team, have said they want to forge partnerships with established automakers and others to build vehicles. Krafcik made a public pitch for alliances at an auto industry conference in Detroit in January.”•“The tech giant is more likely to contract out manufacturing – much like Apple does with iPhone – or to license technology to existing car manufacturers, automotive industry experts said. Licensing would follow the model Google has used with its Android operating system for mobile devices.”•“The tug-of-war over who controls – and profits from – the stream of user data in self-driving cars is ‘an inherent and fundamental conflict’ between Google and traditional automakers” - Raj Rajkumar, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor who advises companies on self-driving car development•“Instead, Google may choose to build its own engineering and design prototypes, then partner with a Chinese automaker or an Asian contractor such as Hon Hai Precision Industry’s Foxconn Technology Co that wants to enter the automotive field, several experts said.”•“Michael Tracy, a Michigan-based auto manufacturing consultant, said Google sees the potential of several different revenue streams from its self-driving technology, including licensing its mapping database and vehicle control software, as well as an integrated package of software, sensors and actuators that would form the backbone of a self-driving vehicle.”•“The least likely prospect is that Google will manufacture its own vehicles, Tracy said, due to the massive expenditures required and the stiff competition from established automakers.”- Tech News That Matters•“Google’s founder Sergey Brin has made it clear that the company plans to have its driverless cars on the market no later than 2018. At the signing ceremony for California’s autonomous vehicles law, he outlined Googles path towards commercialization of its driverless cars. Within 2013 Google plans to expand the number and users of their driverless cars to Google employees. Thereafter it will not take longer than 5 years to get the cars into the market.(Source: Driverless car market watch, 2012-10-02)” – Gearing up to save lives, reduce costs, resource consumptionToyota:•“Toyota Motor Corp. is spending $1 billion to form a research institute focused on the artificial intelligence and robotics technology it needs to make cars that can overcome driver errors and reduce traffic fatalities.”•“The company will also work toward making it easier for elderly drivers to hang onto their keys in aging countries including Japan and the U.S., Toyota’s biggest markets.•“Toyota Research Institute will start operations in January, and the Japanese carmaker’s five-year initial investment will go toward setting up locations near Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”•“The 2020 time frame has particular resonance for Japanese carmakers, as the companies want to showcase their progress toward self-driving in conjunction with Tokyo hosting the Olympics the same year.”– Bloomberg.com•“Traffic accidents involving the elderly are on the rise in Japan, contributing to the industry falling short of meeting a target for fewer than 2,500 road fatalities a year by 2018 set by the National Security Agency. That is even though traffic-related deaths have declined for a 14th straight year to 4,113 fatalities last year. About 30 percent of vehicles sold in the country now are equipped with driver-assistance features such as collision avoidance.” – Bloomberg.com•“Just this April, it also announced its third US university partnership with an automotive engineering stalwart, the University of Michigan.”•“August 2016 has seen it double down on its university efforts, with a further $22M investment to the University of Michigan to drive robotics and self-driving research. The company has targeted 2021 as a goal for deploying “AI car features” to the road. Read More: Wired, Techcrunch”- Venture Capital DatabaseHonda:•“’We believe automated driving technology can greatly contribute to reducing on-road accident and ease congestion,’ Fumihiko Ike, head of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association and Honda chairman, said in a briefing on the car show this week [October 2015]. ‘By integrating automated driving technology with small-scale transport, Japan can overcome the challenges of having to establish full-scaled public transportation in thinly populated rural areas.’” – Bloomberg.comBMW:•“BMW will make semi-autonomous features standard in all their cars starting in 2020, but isn't rushing to develop a fully autonomous car.”•“BMW's all-electric i3 can already park itself and come back to pick you up when you're ready! But BMW is in no way rushing to be the first in the driverless car market. CEO Harald Krüger said in December that the company is holding off on more advanced driverless features until they are sure they are completely safe.”•“BMW has tested its driverless tech on the racetrack and does currently offer some driver assistance features in its BMW 7 series model, such as automatic parking while the driver is at the wheel, the company is holding off on more advanced driverless features[…].”– Bloomberg.comNissan:•“Nissan is committed to have a commercially viable autonomous car on the roads by 2020.” – Tech Insider and Nissan USA: Innovation & Excitement For Everyone•“Nissan has been working to develop this technology alongside teams from some of the world's top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. The combined research time equals 80 years of research and development, the kind of effort it takes to put Nissan at the forefront of this important development.”•“The building blocks of autonomous driving technology already exists in Nissan vehicles in the form of Nissan’s Safety Shield-inspired technologies. These technologies can monitor a nearly 360-degree view around a vehicle for risks, offering warnings to the driver and taking action to help avoid crashes if necessary.”•“The prototype car can drive autonomously on a highway, merging, passing and performing other typical driving maneuvers.”– Nissan USA: Innovation & Excitement For Everyone•“Nissan seeks a safer, more comfortable and environmentally friendly mobile future.” - Toshiyuki Shiga, Vice Chairman, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nissan USA: Innovation & Excitement For EveryoneFord:•"When it comes to autonomous vehicles, we've been at this for over 10 years. We were part of the original Darpa contest over 10 years ago. What we have said is, somebody by the end of this decade will probably have a Level 4 autonomous vehicle, [whereby] the driver does not have to step into a predefined area which has already been 3D-mapped. What we have said is, we may not be the first, but when we do, it will be true to our brand, which means accessibility. We want to make sure it's available to everyone, and not just folks who can afford luxury cars." Ford CEO Mark Fields recently told Business Insider.•“Ford is tripling its fleet of Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles this year – making the company’s fully autonomous vehicle fleet the largest of all automakers – and accelerating the development and testing of its virtual driver software in both urban and suburban environments”•“Ford will add 20 Fusion Hybrid autonomous vehicles, bringing the company's autonomous fleet to about 30 vehicles being tested on roads in California, Arizona and Michigan.”•“New fleet vehicles will use Velodyne’s advanced new Solid-State Hybrid Ultra PUCK™ Auto sensor, providing precision required for mapping and creating accurate, real-time 3D models of the surrounding environment, enhancing Ford’s software development and testing to handle a broader range of driving scenarios”•“Autonomous vehicles are part of Ford Smart Mobility, the plan to take the company to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics”- http://media.ford.comGM:•“General Motors will have a fleet of self-driving cars available for employee use in late 2016.” – Tech Insider•“GM bought self-driving car startup Cruise Automation in March for $1 billion. But we have yet to hear a precise deadline on when it could be ready. GM also invested $500 million in Lyft to build driverless on-demand cars.”– Tech Insider•“GENERAL MOTORS IS quietly developing autonomous vehicle technology and plans to have a fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Volts roaming the campus of its technical center in suburban Detroit next year (2016).”•“It plans to capitalize on that work with “Super Cruise,” a semi-autonomous feature that will let a car handle itself on the freeway. The feature is expected to appear on an unspecified Cadillac model next year. ”•“’You need embedded connectivity to make autonomous work. And that’s where General Motors has a lead,’ with nearly two decades of OnStar-equipped vehicles on the market. It’s moving from there to vehicle to vehicle communication, starting with two Cadillac models next year.” – Mary Barra•“And the Volt is a fitting car for the project: an electrified system makes it easier for engineers to tap into the controls, but more importantly, it’s the most forward-looking car in the GM stable. There’s a reason nearly every autonomous prototype out there is electric: When you’re talking bout one technology of the future, it makes sense to pair it with another.”- WIRED•“GM shares a common vision for the deployment of autonomous vehicles at a mass scale — a clear and vivid vision.” - Kyle Vogt, Cruise's founder and CEO (an autonomous vehicle startup acquired by GM for $1B this year)•“Cruise's 40 employees would remain in San Francisco but that the size of the team would be aggressively expanded.”•“Shared mobility is a very obvious place for GM to use Cruise's technology, Ammann said, as the automaker seeks to ‘fundamentally change the future of mobility.’”•“GM has also been developing its own semi-autonomous technology in-house, with its Super Cruise technology slated to come to market on high-end Cadillac models in 2017. GM has said that the Cruise acquisition would have “no impact” on its Super Cruise launch, and has also detailed plans to hire 700 engineers focused on autonomous R&D. Read More: The Verge, Bloomberg” – Venture Capital Database•“Richard Holman, a 30-year automotive veteran running GM’s foresight and trends unit, said Tuesday that three years ago most industry participants would have estimated 2035 as a reasonable timetable for self-driving cars. Speaking to a conference in suburban Detroit, Mr. Holman said now most people see that technology being deployed by 2020, if not sooner.” – The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and VideoDiamler:•“Daimler, the maker of the Mercedes-Benz, plans to have its driverless trucks ready by 2020.”•“In October, A Mercedes-Benz big-rig made history by driving itself on a public road, marking the first time a big-rig drove semi-autonomously on a highway. Daimler said in 2015 that its driverless trucks are two to three years away from production, Daily Mail reported.”•“’We want to be the first to launch autonomous functions in production vehicles. You can be sure we will accomplish that in this decade,’ Thomas Weber, Daimler head of development, said in 2013.”– Tech InsiderAudi:•“The automaker was the first company to receive an autonomous driving permit in Nevada in 2012 and California in 2014. ” – Tech Insider•“Audi is part of the German consortium — including Daimler and BMW — that bought Nokia’s HERE precision mapping assets for $3.1B. HERE has also recently made strides in their initiative to design an open specification for vehicle sensor data collected and transmitted by connected vehicles.” – Venture Capital DatabaseBaidu:•“Baidu, a Beijing-based search company, is aiming to have a commercial model of its driverless car ready by 2018.”•“Baidu is aiming to have a commercial model of its driverless vehicle ready in just two years. The company plans to introduce self-driving shuttles that will be capable of driving in a designated loop in China by 2018.”– Tech Insider•“Baidu hasn’t decided whether its first autonomous vehicle will have a steering wheel” - Baidu’s chief scientist Andrew Ng, The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and Video•“Chinese search-engine giant Baidu Inc. Senior Vice President Wang Jing said Friday that the company plans to mass produce a driverless car in five years [2021]—so that babies born today won’t need a driver’s license.” – The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and VideoApple:•On […] "Late Show [with Stephen Colbert]" in September, Apple CEO Tim Cook dodged the subject entirely, only stating: ’We look at a number of things along the way, and we decide to really put our energies in a few of them.’” – Tech Insider•“Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley, and is scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it, the Guardian has learned. Documents show the oft-rumoured Apple car project appears to be further along than many suspected.” News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition | The Guardian August 2015Honda:•“Honda has been building semi-autonomous functionality, including forward-collision warning, lane- departure warning and lane-keeping assist. These features are already being rolled out in Honda's Acuras and the Civic model year 2016, which costs about $22,000.”•“With the current roll-out of semi-autonomous functions, which it says will pave the way for full autonomy on highways by 2020, Honda says it differs from rivals, whose self-driving efforts have centered on their luxury models.”•"This is a unique differentiator for Honda ... who is committed to the concept of safety for everyone," said [Jim] Keller [chief engineer for Honda Research and Development Americas}. "Unless we democratize it across our lineup it will be just a niche."- Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters•“Honda has received approval from California to test autonomous vehicles on public streets (with restrictions on the number of vehicles and the testing methods). Like Apple, the automaker is also using the GoMentum Station proving ground, with 2,100 acres of testing area for its self-driving fleet. Honda also introduced semi-autonomous ADAS (advanced-driver assistance systems) options on its entry-level Civic, offering lane-keeping, automatic braking, and adaptive cruise control functionality. These features are also available on luxury models (offered by brands like Tesla, BMW, etc.), but are notable on a vehicle with a $20,440 base price. Read More: Re/code, San Francisco Business Times, Engadget, Honda Press Release” – Venture Capital DatabaseHyundai:•“Hyundai sounded a more conservative note last September. Its European head Thomas Schmid asserted that autonomous driving would come “by far not as quick as everyone says,” giving a timetable of 10 to 15 years. Nevertheless, the Korean motor group seems to be intensifying its efforts to compete in 2016, ramping up investments in AI and setting up a new business unit to develop “hyper-connected” and self-driving cars in the near future.” – Venture Capital DatabasePSA:•“Just this April, the French PSA Groupe (including Peugeot, Citroën and DS) announced that two Citroën cars had driven “eyes off” from Paris to Amsterdam. The vehicles navigated over 300 km (186 miles) without supervision on “authorized stretches” of road, with PSA claiming the cars had achieved Level 3 Automation in this mode. The “eyes off” mode is slated to arrive by 2021, while semi-autonomous “hands off” modes will be available by 2020. These features, along with electric vehicles and new models, form the core of PSA’s broader “Push to Pass” growth strategy (including a return to the US). Read More: PSA Groupe” – Venture Capital DatabaseVolkswagen:•“In March 2016 VW Group CEO Matthias Muller announced that the board had just signed off on a huge autonomous driving initiative, boldly claiming that their goal was to “[bring] these technologies to market faster than the competition.” The Group’s head of digitalization asserts that self-driving cars will be “commonplace” by 2025. Read More: Digital Trends, V-Charge, Reuters” Venture Capital Database

With the power of education. Men fear what they do not know or comprehend. Knowledge is humanity’s greatest weapon. When I was 8, some guy came up to me at Home Depot and he said, “Hey fella, what do you want to be in this life?” I said, “I’m too young to know.” He said, “No, you don’t have the knowledge. If you want to rule the world, move mountains, and even bend life to your will, then educate yourself. Education is the most important thing in this universe.”Today, I take his words to heart. You can’t know unless you know! I’m sure you know what that means. Men are explorers, travelers, adventurers, seekers, inventors, and conquerers.Go out there, be free. Stop sitting in front of your PC or TV all day. Read, invent something, talk to others, and never stop learning. Now of course education isn’t the only thing. Just like making a perfect cake, it requires much more than the right amount of sugar.Below is an actual article I’ve written in its entirety a few days ago. Feel free to go over it and let me know what you think!In life, there are two types of people — the ones that get what they want. The other doesn’t know want they want or never get what they want. Which type do you fall under?The reason why some men (when I say men I mean humanity/woman/mankind) are able to achieve all that they desire while even more, much more never really amount to anything greater than the meal that sits in front of them.As I always like to say, you can only be worth as much as the amount of pain and risk you take. If you despise pain and risk, then you may not get as much as those who embrace or can endure pain and risk.So what do you want? Not sure, then have we got a treat for you. We have brainstormed 19 tactics one can implement in order to take full advantage of all the luxuries that life has to offer. BE WARN! This is a 5,144-word article so grab a cup of coffee and a comfy spot.1) Be Selfish As F.The first step to greatness begins with you. Once upon a time, I was a nice, compassionate, caring boy that just kept to his own business. Nothing exciting happened. I gave my time to others, did favors for them because I wanted to gain their trust, acceptance, and approval.Over the years, I have found that it amounted to nothing. When you help others achieve their dreams, you are wasting valuable time and resource on yourself.It wasn’t until I fully devoted all my time, energy, and resources into myselfthat I saw a change. There are just too many people in this world to please. The one person that should matter the most is you. Each person has an average lifespan of 77 years. That’s not long, not even a blink of an eye if you compare it to the age of the Universe.Make your dreams for yourself. Stop focusing on and worrying about others,even if they are your own blood. They say, 85% of the things you stress about never happen. When you give your attention to others then logically you have less for yourself, which means you really don’t care about yourself.Remember, I used to help and did numerous favors for others because I really thought I could change something and make my life meaningful. On the contrary, it was none of that. I didn’t mature or improve one bit.Don’t get me wrong; it’s good to help others because we humans need to support one another but give 99% of your time and resource to yourself. You will see change and enhance yourself and life.2) Learn To Educate Yourself.How can one know what they want if they lack the knowledge or skills? Pride yourself in education. I truly believe education is the most important thing in this Universe. The mind may be the most powerful weapon in this world, but without knowledge, it may as well be a dead cat.Education opens doors to a whole new world. One can learn a new tongue. Live another life. Experience never before tastes. And even meet the love of their life. There may only be one earth, but it does contain many worlds within itself.You can never stop learning. The brain can hold about 100 Terabytes of information. Today’s PC holds an average of 500 GB which is about 200 times less. 100 Terabytes is fricken huge. To give you a perspective, a 3 minutes audio is about 4mb while a 1080P, 2-hour movie is 2GB (if you compress the space). So don’t worry, even if you lived until the age of 500, you will never fill your brain.If it weren’t for education, then technology, advancement, innovation, comfort, and a better tomorrow wouldn’t exist. Lack of education. Do you know how catastrophic the lack of education can be? Wars, famine, death, and foolishness are the root caused by lack of education.If we compare the wealthiest nations to the poorest; do you see how education plays a critical role if not the only role? Education means wiser people, government, and an intelligent young generation.So, one of the ways for you to know what you want is to study, research, and learn about it. Maybe owning a lambo will make you happy, maybe it won’t. Maybe having a gorgeous partner will make everything right, maybe it won’t. With education, you will know the answer.Education is the most valuable thing in the universe. You can always measure one’s wealth based on their education level. You want the finer things or even the best things in life, then educate thyself.3) Work Like A Slave.If you want a bike, then it isn’t going to take much effort. Now, if you want an empire, then it’s going to take every ounce of will, power, and life from you. The greater the want, the greater the effort.If we look at the most influential figures and the top 1% of this world, do you notice a common trait? They all work like mad slaves. Movie stars, athletes, entertainers, CEOs, and the likes put in a ridiculous amount of time. That is why they are ahead of their competition.The best and greatest things in life require time. Take a Toyota and compare it to a Ferrari. Not only is the price but the amount of time it takes to produce is as comparable as day to night.Telling you won’t mean squat. You need to apply. Men who get want they want don’t think or talk about it. They get up and execute because they know that actions speak while words wither away to nothingness.Let’s take your partner for example. How long did it take to develop such trust and bond? Weeks, months, even years? And you really wanted them, right? The same principle applies to materialistic or even non-tangible things.The most beautiful flowers require precise time, water, sunlight, and care. How much care and beauty does your desires need? Well, that is for you to decide.As long as you are willing to put in the time and effort for it, then what is stopping you? It is only natural for one to achieve their desires as long as they put in the time and never stop working towards it. If you don’t believe me, then the next time you meet a wealthy person, ask them how many hours a week they work and how for how many years?4) Take Huge Risk.Your wants are directly proportionate to the risk that is required. Therefore the higher the risk, the higher the reward. But don’t get to cocky. The fall can be just as high as the risk itself.Companies take risk every day. Some fail epically like my previous one, while others become gigantic corporations. Of course, other factors come into play.Life itself is a risk. If you don’t try new things, then you will never learn. If we humans never took risk, then America wouldn’t be here as well as billions of other things.Risk involves failure which is view as an ominous thing. If it is bad then humans don’t want anything to do with it. Men strive for comfort and the path of least resistance and pain. Therefore, risk is not for the weak of hearts, yet one will never obtain his desires without such traits.There are small risk and huge risk. Work your way up so that you can experience the levels of difficulty. Don’t be a fool and throw all your earning or efforts if you’ve never risked anything. Risk is like gambling, except gambling involves money. Not all risk involves money.5) Love What You Do.It just doesn’t make any logical sense. How can one work towards something if one doesn’t love what they do? It happens every day and that’s why most men never get the one thing they long for.If we compare two men, both working towards the same dream. Let’s say that dream is to own a mansion. They both have the same job yet one of them absolutely loves what he does while the other hates it with a passion. Now, between these two, which do you think will achieve his wants faster and more efficiently.Most likely the one that is passionate about his job. Such is not always the case but Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates just to name a few love what they do. I’m just saying!The thing is, if you hate where you work or what you do, it’s probably because you are doing it for the money. You need to pay the bills and provide for yourself or family. Sometimes working for passion isn’t going to cut it. However, not all wants require money. Some require mental, physical like working out, and maybe even spiritual wants.For example, I really do want to achieve enlightenment (by meditating). This doesn’t require any amount of money, yet requires a vast amount of time as well as the utmost patience and a godlike mindset. As you can see, it is no simple task, and most will never achieve such an amazing feat.Day in day out, for years and maybe even a lifetime to come. The chances of you achieving your wants will be substantially greater if you enjoy and love what you do vs. not. Even the greatest minds will tell you that. You will break, sooner or later. All men must fall before they can rise!6) Believe In Yourself 100%.Like #1, the first step to greatness has a start and a beginning. That start is no other than you. I will say this without hesitation that throughout history and life as a whole; men who achieve greatness and get exactly what they want is because they believe in themselves.The first emperor of China (largest kingdom since the time of dawn), how much self-belief do you think he was required to possess? All 100% of it. It may take only 1 thing or 10,000 things to get what you want. Make self-belief the top 2. As for number 1, well, that’s for you to decide since everyone is different.With self-belief, you develop other skills naturally. Self-belief isn’t just one trait; it forces one to confront and explore oneself. You will discover your weaknesses and strengths.In this life, it doesn’t matter if the whole world doesn’t believe in you, why? You just need one important person to believe in you, and that very person is you. Let’s say for a moment that all 7.1 billion people believe in you; however, you don’t. Do you see my point here?Never doubt yourself. There will be times or countless times when you will meet challenges and obstacles that seem impossible to conquer. Just take the word impossible and make it 2 words. There you have it.You are the most important person in this universe. There will be no one like you. We all have our own books to write. Make yours unique and worth reading. Believe not in the impossible, but thyself for all things are possible with you.7) Never Give Up.It is in men and the nature of life to live as comfortably as possible. Even elements and energy choose this route. Like I said, what causes suffering is bad and what causes comfort is what many lend toward to.Without pain or suffering, one can not grow. Even nations must go through such things in order to better themselves. Rwanda is one of the prime examples, as well as America. Is it not that those who suffer the most are the ones that grow the most? I may be wrong, but history and my personal experiences prove otherwise!Everyone tells us never to say “never,” yet do you want to listen and be like everyone? Give up is one of foulest words but if we add never in front of it; it becomes one of the most authoritative words. Giving up only takes 1/2 a nanosecond while never giving up takes a whole lifetime.It takes years or even centuries to build something worthwhile but only a moment to knock it down. Giving up is just like that. Many falter not because they want to give up, it’s merely due to the time. There will be 10,000’s if not 10 billion things that will make you want to give up. How long can you endure such adversities?What always helps me is that I say the words “never give up” out loud and in my mind. It gives me absolute strength to know that the weak give up because it is easy, only takes a moment without any thought. However, I am strong therefore I will never ever give up!If you always give up, then you will never get what you want. Simple as 1, 2, 3. However, if you cling on and keep pushing, then there will be a time when your dreams will become a reality. How much does that dream mean to you? If giving up on it is an option, then your dreams aren’t really that important.8) Meditate To Master Your Mind.Life isn’t about controlling the body. It’s about mastering the mind. When we are truly able to master our minds, then we can control our lives without fault. It’s not easy; you can believe me when I say that. Many think that this world is all physical, it’s not. Actually, it may be far from physical, but that’s for another story.Not only can meditation aid you in your quest to achieving your desires but it may alter it completely. I’ve always wanted to help the poor and educate the less fortunate. It gave me sense and a purpose, but I honestly didn’t know why. Meditation took that to a new level.When I help others, not only am I benefiting them but humanity as a whole. As I said before, education is the greatest power in this Universe. If everyone can have some kind of education, then this world and the thousands of futures that lie ahead of us will be ever so wonderful. Meditation has amazing powers, don’t underestimate it. Learn how to meditate here.What you want is physical or mental? Let’s just say physical for the time being. When you practice meditation, you come to realize that humans are attached to the material world, physically! Coincide? I think not! We know only what we see and fear what we can not. And what do we see? A physical and tangible world.Don’t be fooled because sight is only 1 of the many, not 5 senses that we humans possess. Discover yourself, discover what this universe is really made of. Then maybe, just maybe you won’t want “that” thing anymore. Meditation radically transformed my life. I truly have to say, if I hadn’t discovered its gift, then who knows where I would be today.9) Work On Yourself.People want cars, luxurious houses, the most expensive champagne, and all the sins that this world can give, yet we forget the most precious thing, us! We slave 10,000’s of hours of work and endure through years of $#!t so we can buy things that make us “happy,” supposedly.Oh, I was one of those people. Even billionaires and the most influential figures fall to this demon. What I am talking about is your body. The human body is consist of 3 things — the body, mind, and soul. It’s a stair that leads from one thing to another. You can’t master the mind unless you can control the body.Look at Shaolin monks and even monks in general. Are they fat, overweight, look unhealthy, worn out, and so forth? No, because they take care of themselves. They are vegetarians and practice a healthy lifestyle without stress, fear, worry, or harming their body.Anyone can do it. Most aren’t willing to because it requires time. *Psst. I’ll let you on a secret if you live healthily and take care of your mind and body then you will live longer, like 10-30 years more. Oh yeah, it’s been backed by studies and research.If you have 30 minutes to check your facebook and IG then you definitely have 30 minutes to meditate, work out, or work on yourself. I always say the best time is self-time. What the hell does checking FB or IG do, absolutely nothing. If you want change, then you have to set an example.If you want to lose weight, look sexy, or get stronger, but all you do is talk, then that is all you will be. No one can help you but yourself. Even God helps those who help themselves.Work on yourself, maybe that is what you really want, yet you truly don’t know because you have never done it before. Try, just give it a go and see if that was what you have been looking for all along.10) Appreciate What You Don’t Have.We all want something, but no one wants cancer, blindness, a missing limb, or disabilities. Have you ever just woke up and was thankful because you don’t have those disabilities? Try it, and see how your day starts. As opposed to complaining about your back pain or how the bacon and eggs weren’t to your liking.15% of humans have some form of disabilities. I wonder out of the other 85%, how many are appreciative that they don’t have such disabilities? You can always take a negative situation and turn it into a positive one, with the right mindset. For just a moment, try not to want anything. After all, if you don’t want anything, then you have everything!Every day I thank The Maker that I am well, alive, strong, full of youth, energy, and that the sun is still shining even if Earth is covered in darkness. I don’t need more physical things because I have the two greatest things that I want, myself and life!This took almost 26 years to realize. Coming from a guy who used to despise everything about himself, including my own existence! Today, I wouldn’t trade my life for anyones. I’ve found the most valuable treasure, and it’s right here.11) Be Content With Life.Health, a loving family, a job, or even one friend, then that is all you really need. You have everything worth having in life, but knowing the weakness of men. Some will never be satisfied no matter how much they are filled. More things mean more problems. Don’t burden yourself with such uselessness. All you do is cause more misery and suffering to yourself.You will never achieve true happiness. If you live with a mentality of always wanting, then you will never be filled. And when you are not filled, you will not be satisfied.Life has everything we could want. Fresh air, warm weather, beautiful nature, adorable animals, tasty food, clear water, and pretty much everything to make one yearn for another tomorrow.If you still want that mansion or super expensive car, then go for it. But once you own it, do you think it can give you happiness or is your imagination playing games with you. One man’s treasure can be another man’s trash. Life itself, is that not the greatest gift one can ask more?12) Endure Pain And Discomfort.Most people want materialistic things. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but how many are willing to go to through hell and back for it? Not many.All men want to go to heaven yet no one wants to die. – Albert KingSo you want something but aren’t willing to do what is required to achieve it. Well, there’s the problem.I guess you really don’t want to go to Heaven because you don’t want to die.Eric Thomas, if you don’t know who he is, you will now. He grew up in Detroit, MI. A bad, nasty, wicked place. He and his friends all wanted to be rich and successful. Fast forward 20 years, he’s homeless. For 2 years he had no friends or family to support him. It was a dog eat dog world for him. Did he endure pain? You bet the F%$# he did! Anyways, he along with many other men says that everyone wants to be rich, and have expensive things yet only 1-5% are willing to put in the time and pain require for such things. How bad do you want it? Hold your breathe as long as you can. The very last second, is that breathe not the greatest and only thing you want! Make all your wants and dreams like so. If you aren’t willing to F$%&ing die for your beliefs or wants, then I guess you really don’t want it that bad.We want too much, that is in our nature. What is also in our nature is to receive it without pain, or effort. Pain is temporary, just like life itself. Getting what you want can be eternal, yet you won’t sacrifice the temporary pain that it causes. So do you see why most of us never get what we truly so desire?13) Change Your Mindset.Garren Jones, if you don’t know who he is, you will now. His story doesn’t differ much from Eric Thomas, but it’s a little more tragic. Growing up, he never had much, and his relationship with his family wasn’t the greatest. Fast forward, he’s now 17 years old. He’s making a delivery. The package, unknown yet the job pays well. That day he got arrested and spend a couple of years in jail. During that time he read billions of books. Today he is a changed man and his greatest quote, “As long as you love what you are doing, then you are free.” He’s always wanted to be a superhero due to his childhood, so he always carried that to mind. Today he helps the less fortunate achieve their dreams and to make a world a better place.What can we learn from these tragic stories? Pain and misery are not bad it may be the only thing that can change some people. The other is that we have to look at things differently.Garren Jones was sent to prison for delivering a package! It could have been pizza, but of course, it was drugs, but he didn’t know that. However, that didn’t stop him from not learning and instead of being a total reject straight out of prison; he educated himself, became successful, and a known figure to the motivational community.Just because life kicks and throws you down, it doesn’t mean you have to stay down. For men to rise, we first my fall! We must change our mindsets. Garren read so many books and studied in prison. He could have slept all day or do absolutely nothing. And he said he didn’t regret his past life. Do you know why? Because he is living his life with no regrets and he shall surely die without regrets.14) Think Long Term.If you want it now, then I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the best things in life are worth waiting for. Raising a family takes time and much-needed effort. Most of us truly want to start a family. It’s a big goal and commitment. But don’t just think long term based on relationships and human values.If you want a cruise ship, then you have to be willing to understand that it may take 50 years or even 70 years to get it. Do you think Jeff Bezos thought that he was going to be the wealthiest man in the world? No, especially in 2000 when Amazon stocks took a massive crap, but he held on, and now he’s the wealthiest mother phuker. He’s 54 and started Amazon 24 years ago. Can you endure 1/2 of your life for something truly worthwhile? How about 3/4 of your life? How about 4/4 of your life?In fact, somethings may never be achieved or obtainable in one lifetime which means we must pass it to our children or the next generation. My purpose is the perfect example. (To educate everyone on this earth.) I truly believe that your wants have to be meaningful and valuable if you are willing to endure through decades or even a century.60-70 years, that’s quite enough to fulfill your desires and live a life that you deem worthy? Is it not? Then what’s halting you from getting what you want? There’s always a tomorrow. Don’t let a few slip-ups or even one huge failure stop you. We may only have one life and one body, however, we have an unlimited chance to do and have what we want.15) Set Goals Or Purpose.When we set goals, it gives us something to strive for, to do. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we will achieve it. A goal is merely something we set for ourselves, one which gives us meaning and purpose.Just like bettering yourself, setting goals will unlock new experiences. You can expect to develop discipline because a goal without discipline will be quite hard to achieve. You have to focus and put all your efforts into achieving your goals.You may gain intelligence because you need to use whatever means necessary to achieve it. But most importantly, your wants. You set goals. Thus you want to achieve it. So when you do, you not only achieve your wants but you also obtain it. Killing 20 birds with one pebble.If you don’t really know what you want, then set a goal for yourself, a pretty big one. It could be to run 25 mph, bench-press 400 pounds, marry your next door neighbor, or even start a big company. That’s the easy part.Now you must work day and night, years after years until that one goal has been completed. Over time, you may feel as if this is the want that you have been searching for. Goals give us a purpose. Therefore, a purpose can very well be a want.16) Be Wise About It.What do you want? World peace or to speak another tongue? The first is a hopeless illusion while the second can be very doable! Hasn’t everyone tried to achieve world peace? Well, where are they now? All dead. Learning a 2nd language takes time and effort. If you have a tongue, then you are good to go.Some things can never be obtainable in this world. As a human, we are insignificant to the Universe as a whole; therefore we must do what we can to make it mean something to as, as an individual.Is it better to want something gigantic like world peace yet never actually having the chance to have it or is it better to want something like a daughter and actually being able to make it happen?Small steps, little by little each day, produce a grand journey. Is it better to have many achievable wants or a very few difficult wants? If the latter then be prepared to work like a slave, face hell many times over, and get used to disappointments.You know your wants better than mine. Be wise and use calculated measures to determine how achievable it is. A foolish man will never get as far as a slow and wise man.17) Visualize And Dream About It Every Moment.Visualization is not only powerful but super effective. I mean, sight is one of humanity’s greatest gift. We judge basically everything off appearances. Visualization works due to repetition.Actually, 65% of us are visual learners. That is why youtube and movies make the big bucks. When you take an image and blast it into someone’s eye socket 1 million or even billion times a day, I’m pretty sure they get ” the picture,” after getting a headache.When you think about your wants every single moment, every day, it eventually becomes the only thing you care about. Not only that, it is a constant reminder of what you want. If you visualize it every day then how can you forget about it?Just like thinking about it which works just as effective as visualizing it, you are feeding your brain with images which uses a different part of the brain as opposed to thoughts. The effect is still the same. You wire yourself to become or accomplish that of what you visualize.Want to make it even more potent? Combine visualization with feelings. I want to bench press 300 pounds eventually. Not only must I visualize such feat but I must feel the power and accomplishment that it gives as well.18) Plan The Steps.You want something, so what are the things or requirements for it? Do you need to make a strategic plan and carefully assets each point? If it’s something of value and has meaning then you better.Producing a movie, baking a cake, putting together a car, and so on, all require a plan or some type of list. It ensures a more accurate production, fewer mistakes, and if you ever forget something, then all you need to do is look at the guide. If you don’t have one, oh well, you’re SOL.It’s not a must but it ought to be. It would be wise to plan out what you want and keep it in a visible area. Check off each part that you’ve done, and eventually, you will get what you want. With so much going around life, you can bet that you will forget at least one important step to your wants. Just make a plan, it’s better to be safe than sorry.You can even say that having a plan is like visualization but in the form of words. It is structured and provides a visual form. Anything to help you get what you want in life is better than nothing at all.19) Don’t Be Afraid Of Failure.There are trillions of things, people, and wants in this world. If you can’t have thing number 1, then go for thing number 2 and so on. Just because you failed to obtain your desires doesn’t mean you should give up.Maybe what you really want isn’t really what you wanted? There’s always another way and another option. And who knows, there could be a chance that the other option was more to your liking than the previous one.There’s so much to do, see, and experience on this earth. One fail or even 10,000 failure shouldn’t stop you. Failing is a part of life if it weren’t then we humans would not grow or learn from our mistakes. Failing is actually our friend. It tells us what we did wrong. It may not tell us of a solution, but it sure does give us some tips.It is normal to fail, we all fail at one put or another. Just try not to fail over and over to where it drains you physically, mentality, and financially.Original Work: https://easylifejourney.com/what-do-you-want/5144 words, that’s how much this article contains. I hope you get your answers because if you didn't then you need Jesus.