IMHO, the best reasons to go into space are these very problems. Right now, all of our eggs are one basket, labelled "Earth". If we can establish ourselves in space and on other planets, we stand a much better chance of survival if the Earth tears itself to pieces.
I just really hope we learn a few lessons from our time in this planet before we move to another and screw things up there too. I guess we could start a civilization v2.0 and try and make things better the next time around. Since finding a new place to move to is somewhat hard, maybe we'll take care of it and not take it for granted like we do with Terra.
The sad thing about exporting the "Way of Life" is that we'll be exporting drug abuse, rape, prostitution, racism, and all the other fundamentally bad things that taint our society right now. I hope we learn something about all this before we even try space colonization.
Well so, let's assume all you said it's true, and compare it to a car given by a father to his son...
The kid goes around smashing things and not washing the car and doesn't bother to change the oil, etc etc. The father then looks at the car and says: "I'm not paying for all this mess you've created, take care of it yourself".
The point of all this is: we can't expect an all pawerful God to come down and save us from ourselves. After all this is the only planet we have, if we don't take care of it, we're fresh out of places to live.
Let's stop beign so paternalistic and start taking care of our mess.
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IMHO, the best reasons to go into space are these very problems. Right now, all of our eggs are one basket, labelled "Earth". If we can establish ourselves in space and on other planets, we stand a much better chance of survival if the Earth tears itself to pieces.
I just really hope we learn a few lessons from our time in this planet before we move to another and screw things up there too. I guess we could start a civilization v2.0 and try and make things better the next time around. Since finding a new place to move to is somewhat hard, maybe we'll take care of it and not take it for granted like we do with Terra.
The sad thing about exporting the "Way of Life" is that we'll be exporting drug abuse, rape, prostitution, racism, and all the other fundamentally bad things that taint our society right now. I hope we learn something about all this before we even try space colonization.
Well so, let's assume all you said it's true, and compare it to a car given by a father to his son... The kid goes around smashing things and not washing the car and doesn't bother to change the oil, etc etc. The father then looks at the car and says: "I'm not paying for all this mess you've created, take care of it yourself". The point of all this is: we can't expect an all pawerful God to come down and save us from ourselves. After all this is the only planet we have, if we don't take care of it, we're fresh out of places to live. Let's stop beign so paternalistic and start taking care of our mess.