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Meteors are the universes way to ask... (Score:5, Insightful)
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And even if we multiplied out current space program's budget by ten times... it still wouldn't be enough. A thousand times? That might be enough for a half ass program with a slim-to-none chance of survival.
We could roll twenty Falcon 9's and fifteen Dragon's off the assembly lines and launch them every hour if we really wanted to. It's just a matter of writing a big enough check - but it wouldn't be enough. The space program isn't the problem. The problem is that building an off-Earth colony that can
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Uh.. what?
Sure it's a difficult problem, but we need to work on it. We're still taking baby steps, but humanity does need to wake the fuck up and start getting serious about colonizing other planets. If the universe's plethora of flying debris doesn't wipe us out, and if we manage to not kill each other off in a horrible war, and we prevent global climate change from rendering the planet unlivable, we're still faced with an eventual exhaustion of resources at our current rate of growth.
Just because someth
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I'm not surprised your reply starts with "Uh.. what?" - because that sound you just heard was my point whooshing over your head.
I didn't say we shouldn't get started, I said the answers don't lie in an ever improved space "program". Access to space is the least important and most trivial part of the problem of building a colony that can survive the loss of the Earth.
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humanity does need to wake the fuck up and start getting serious about colonizing other planets.
Irony: the next planet we end up colonizing ends up getting hit by a meteor and is destroyed.
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