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GrabASnickers posted...

You're putting words in my mouth at this point, dude. All I'm saying is I'm not going to go around acting like some sort of "free thinker" like you seem to think you are. You realize that most of humans' knowledge is formed by information they pass along from other people, right? You can get a lot out of observation but when it comes to stuff like this, you and I both only have access to secondary and tertiary sources. So it really annoys me when people try to act like they know a lot when they're all dipping into the same pool, just from different ends.

As for colonizing Mars or whatever, I'm not going to say it's impossible, but if we were able to ever do that, certainly we could invest our time and money and brainpower into much better things. And it fails to address the root problem that a lot of our existential threats are a result of mankind's own greed and hubris; what is to stop us from falling victim to that on a future home? Even in the case of something natural like an asteroid it's going to be much more practical to find a way to mitigate that risk while staying on earth rather than try to move populations tens of millions of miles.

I'm all for space exploration but not for throwing all of our faith into ideas that aren't going to come into fruition and fail to address many other problems we face

There are countless planets out there. So humans will just move on to other worlds after ruining those.
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