The Human Race 'Must Colonise Space Or Face Extinction'

The Mad Rapper said:
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.
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Rubbish there is little difference between that and the moon, we also can and do send probes.


Saving everyone was not the question or anything to do with OP.
 
pfft.. I been saying this for years..

Instead of spending money/time cocking about with recycling/fighting oil wars lets spend it on finding more resources out in the cosmos.

If the muslims don't like me because I won't bow down to their particular brand of fantasy I am quite happy to move to another planet. As a white male bred from many generations of British folk I have very little patriotism left.
 
How does all this living away from earth affect religion?

Religious Mum: The Earth was made in 7 days..
Child: What's the Earth?
Also, if it got to that stage, how can the dead be resurrected when the planet they've 'rested upon' doesn't exist anymore?

Will there be social housing on Mars?
Will there be hybrid powered spaceships?
Will companies sell air to you much like water and electricity companies today? So many units will be charged at a higher rate
Will only a select number of animals be allowed to colonise with us?
What post coding system will be used?
Can I get a personalised registration for my spaceship?
 
Its pretty much a no-brainer. Our sun will kill our planet, we have to move at some point.

JBod said:
pfft.. I been saying this for years..

Instead of spending money/time cocking about with recycling/fighting oil wars lets spend it on finding more resources out in the cosmos.

If the muslims don't like me because I won't bow down to their particular brand of fantasy I am quite happy to move to another planet. As a white male bred from many generations of British folk I have very little patriotism left.
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I was with you until you mentioned muslims. What do they have to do with anything?
 
I think about this a lot (sad i know), the problem we have is that no government has the will to spend large sums of money on just exploring space let alone on a settling the human race on a different planet, Put it this way if a government party went up for election and one of there main policy's was to spend large amounts of money on space exploration/putting a base on the moon they would not get many votes.

The only time i can foresee space exploration and the putting of a base on another planet/moon is when an alternate cheaper fuel is invented.
 
We don't have a few billion years, the Sun will indeed enter the red giant phase in about 5 billion years however the increase in solar temperatures is such that in about a billion years, the surface of the Earth will become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.
 
The time scales of genetic evolution and stellar evolution guarantees 'humans' will be long long gone before the Sun makes Earth uninhabitable. It simply isn't an issue for our species. What's more likely that that over the remaining billion or so years complex life has on this planet there will be several mass extinctions followed by repopulation with a whole new set of species. The trajectory of a single species over those time scales is just irrelevant.
 
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Gilly said:
Its pretty much a no-brainer. Our sun will kill our planet, we have to move at some point.



I was with you until you mentioned muslims. What do they have to do with anything?
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I was using them as a poster child for suggesting in a rather obscure fashion that perhaps people with such fundamentally different beliefs would be better off galaxies apart rather than just oceans. Volunteering myself as a settler as I have no particular attachment to earth/country.

Of course this would probably just foster more distrust and hatred and a 100 years down the line rather large ships of war would clash in space... hmm I feel a movie coming on.
 
'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.
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we are all travelling forwards in 'time'

and that makes no sense, space ships when moving pass time slower than the outside world relatively... unless that is what he means in a convoluted sense?
 
Nickg said:
and that makes no sense,
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That's what I thought. I think the writer meant to say 'would not breach'
and probably also meant to write either 'Hawking said' or 'he said' but not 'Hawking he said'

But all credit to the Daily Mail, the picture was indeed Stephen Hawking against a background of something in space.
 
Nickg said:
we are all travelling forwards in 'time'

and that makes no sense, space ships when moving pass time slower than the outside world relatively... unless that is what he means in a convoluted sense?
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The original quote is wrong as far as I know. Assuming you can find a way to move close to (or even faster) than the speed of light, you basically have yourself a one-way time machine.

Inside the spaceship you may only experience a few hours passing, but (dependant on the speed of the ship), a far, far greater amount of time would have passed. So yeah, what you're saying is correct, just the original quote is wrong, unless Hawkins has changed his ideas recently.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Rubbish there is little difference between that and the moon, we also can and do send probes.
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There's a huge difference. It has never been done, the life support demands of any mission are phenomenal. I suggest, seeing as how you think it's so easy, that you pop along to NASA and show them where they are going wrong...


Saving everyone was not the question or anything to do with OP.
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I'll decide what the OP was about, seeing as how I posted it. You'll note I did mention the 'entire' Human Race.
 
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