The Human Race 'Must Colonise Space Or Face Extinction'

[The Mad Rapper]

An interesting read here.

Stephen Hawking has a point, but I am inclined to take a pessimistic view. Switch the TV on and look at what's going on around the World, how we treat each other. I think we are going to fail as a Race, either by killing ourselves, or by some other means (asteroid impact or similar). We don't have the technology to escape the planet (as an entire Race) either, and I don't think we will - it's just not practical.



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[Efour]

yeah no ones ever been to the moon, are you going to edit your post or what?

a bit philosophical BS you normally post good stuff ?

 

[L0rdMike]

The Sun will kill us all if we survive till then that is.

 

[Glaucus]

Stating the obvious, the sun will explode in a few billion years.

We won't kill ourselves and war means little. We don't have to colonise space as a united species.

We do have the technology to leave the planet and set up bases. We even have the technology to travel to close stars. Just a lack of reason and a massive lack of money.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

yeah no ones ever been to the moon, are you going to edit your post or what?

No silly, I mean in terms of evacuating the entire plant - not just sending a small number of humans into space

 

[TheCenturion]

In 1000 years there'll be a theme park on the moon.

Thank you Futurama

 

[The Mad Rapper]

We won't kill ourselves and war means little. We don't have to colonise space as a united species.

This is what worries me. Rather than take everyone, the rich make their escape leaving the rest to it. OK if you are in that social set, otherwise you're buggered frankly.

We do have the technology to leave the planet and set up bases.

We do, but as you later point out, the costs are prohibitive.

We even have the technology to travel to close stars.

We do? We can't even send a manned mission to Mars, so how would that work?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

We don't have the technology to escape the planet (as an entire Race)

For the human race to escape the planet it will only take one man and one woman.

Ideally it would be 32 men and 32 women to avoid genetic problems.

No silly, I mean in terms of evacuating the entire plant

Why would we need to evacuate the entire planet in order to preserve the human race? Have you not seen The day the earth stood still?

This is what worries me. Rather than take everyone, the rich make their escape leaving the rest to it. .

And?

 

[Glaucus]

No silly, I mean in terms of evacuating the entire plant - not just sending a small number of humans into space

Why do you need to evacuate the entire plant to colonise space or survive as a species.

We can send a manned mission to mars. Just because we don't doesn't mean we can't.

 

[LizardKing]

No silly, I mean in terms of evacuating the entire plant - not just sending a small number of humans into space

200 years ago, no one had ever thought we would fly as an example.
So who know what the next century will take us let alone 2

 

[Efour]

No silly, I mean in terms of evacuating the entire plant - not just sending a small number of humans into space

just take genetic samples of as many people as you can and we can make some humans when we get to alpha centuri or where ever the next nearest planetary system is.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Why do you need to evacuate the entire plant to colonise space or survive as a species.

To survive as a species, of course you wouldn't, but if by some stroke of luck we managed to survive as a species for billions of years, wouldn't you want those humans on the planet to leave Earth before it became engulfed by the Sun?

 

[The Mad Rapper]

200 years ago, no one had ever thought we would fly as an example.
So who know what the next century will take us let alone 2

You may be right, but I think that the development of technology is slowing down. There seems to be no political will either, which is another huge hurdle.

 

[Efour]

Money and costs are irrelevant factors when we are talking about the hypothetical end of the human race.

Capitalism needs to run its course before we can advance any further. If that means a Nuclear Holocaust then i guess it has to happen.

lol i love all this star trek stuff

 

[elmuzzy66.]

Would we want to save the whole world. I would select the best and send them on their way. Chavs in space no thanks.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Why do you need to evacuate the entire plant to colonise space or survive as a species.

We can send a manned mission to mars. Just because we don't doesn't mean we can't.

Until we do, then no-one knows. Without wishing to sound patronising, it's one thing to say we have the technology and knowledge that should allow us to do so, it's quite another to actually put that into practise.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Chavs in space

Now there's a movie waiting to be made!

 

[Alex_6n2]

We do? We can't even send a manned mission to Mars, so how would that work?

Yes we could. In terms of difficulty it's not that much of a stretch over going to the moon. In terms of cost and time however, much more so. We don't have to money to at the moment.

 

[PardonTheWait]

It'll become obvious, painfully obvious, at some point that we need to up sticks - the money and the political will will materialise.

World War II wasn't cheap or fun but we pulled our fingers out of our arses and got it done, same thing will happen with this imo, when it gets drastic enough.

 

[markweatherill]

'Earlier this year Hawking he said that a spaceship capable of travelling through time - but only forwards - would breach Albert Einstein's theories of relativity.
This means that humans might one day be able to use time travel to skip generations into the future.'

That actually doesn't make sense. I think the writer has inadvertantly displayed the extent of his knowledge of the subject matter.