Poll: Space Colonization

[Aardvark]

Just figure a way to make it profitable to ship people off-world and let the free market do the rest. Pretty soon, we'll be looking for new galaxies to infest.

 

[paragon1]

I think someone should pull an Ozymandias (preferably without the killing millions of people thing. I'm hoping that people will be living on Mars before I die.

 

[paragon1]

just what the universe needs a plague of selfish primates who cant even live peacefully on a single planet spreading out amongst the stars

Hey, we have to put up with it. Why should the rest of existence get it so easy?

 

[Fenring]

Ever since I was little, I've always hoped that I'd see the day man reached another star. Now, I'd just be glad to live long enough to see man go back to the moon.

Space travel is on the back of everyone's minds, at least here in the US. Not that I can blame them. We're in the middle of two wars, we have more debt than we have dirt, the unemployment rate is sky-high, and we have two hostile countries that want to build nuclear weapons.

Any sort of major advances in space exploration will have to wait at least a decade when all this has passed, and only if any new problems don't show up. Or something major happens, or is discovered, where space exploration becomes a necessity worth the investment.

Still, I'm hopeful that one day someone proves Einstien wrong, and invents an FTL drive.

Just wanted to say this reminded me of my childhood reading Dune and 2001 and watching Startrek and Babylon 5. Those were some of the happiest days of my life.

We should go back to space, the main reason we don't are we won the space race and no one wants to be an astronaut any more. Space, while for the most part empty, is filled with potential for our species.

 

[AvroLancaster]

I think we need to start the process now, get the infrastructure and technological base down pat, and then, in 200+ years when we can finally pull it off, we'll be ready for when it will matter/be feasible.

I wouldn't want to live off Earth though, my family's here, my roots are here, and I already live in Canada... why would I want to go to a colder place?

 

[Emilin_Rose]

Now see this is where my theory on the mayan calander is tested. We SHOULD be looking to colonize space, and we COULD already be well on our way. But human nature as it is, the clever look for ways to benifit their retarded offspring and we get capitalism. Capitalism which ensures that only those with enough money come into power. Natural selection being completely flipped as it is, those with money will ignore all learning in favor of fast cars, thigh-pants, and multiple hats. This is how stupid people gain power. Now with the idiots in charge and handed nukes i think the mayans predicted not that the world would end through some effort of some god, but through the people themselves.

Space travel will never be realized because we're all going to blow ourselves up. The mayans weren't prophets knowing when the world would end, they were just excellent judges of human nature.