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Nope. I firmly believe that we should fully explore our planet before gallivanting about.
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inb4 the Reapers
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Nope

Space exploration will not be anywhere near significant in our lifetime. Even if we found water on Mars / some planet and immediately started building homes there, they wouldn't be finished until we're long dead.
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Nope its a waste of time
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how can we explore space if we can't get past the firmament
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_Squirtle_ posted...

Nope

Space exploration will not be anywhere near significant in our lifetime. Even if we found water on Mars / some planet and immediately started building homes there, they wouldn't be finished until we're long dead.

Long dead? Some people here could live until 2100.
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Not really, we have a lot of problems on this planet as it is, we need to fix those first before we start exploring space. Plus, with the singularity coming and lucid virtual reality systems we could explore much more fascinating worlds in the comfort of our own home.
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We have to lay the groundwork for leaving this planet though.
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lincoln002 posted...

Not really, we have a lot of problems on this planet as it is, we need to fix those first before we start exploring space.

So we should just keep everyone on Earth and just let hostilities grow more and more to the brink rather than spread out.
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RiderofHogs posted...

lincoln002 posted...

Not really, we have a lot of problems on this planet as it is, we need to fix those first before we start exploring space.

So we should just keep everyone on Earth and just let hostilities grow more and more to the brink rather than spread out.

The Earth will eventually die, and we need to explore space to help save mankind in the future.
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The time period for earth death is billions of years and the time scales of space leave it completely irrational to attempt to colonize it unless you can teleport
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Fix shit here on Earth before exploring space, stop wasting money on stupid shit and focus on keeping the planet from going to shit.
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Offworlder1 posted...

Fix shit here on Earth before exploring space, stop wasting money on stupid shit and focus on keeping the planet from going to shit.

Almost all of our problems come from there being too many people on Earth.
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RiderofHogs posted...

Offworlder1 posted...

Fix shit here on Earth before exploring space, stop wasting money on stupid shit and focus on keeping the planet from going to shit.

Almost all of our problems come from there being too many people on Earth.

What will happen when we have 11 billion in 2100?
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Colonization of other worlds is a fucking novelty and will only ever be a novelty.

We aren't running out of space on Earth, we have too many fucking people.

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Colonization of other worlds is a fucking novelty and will only ever be a novelty.

We aren't running out of space on Earth, we have too many fucking people.

Historians will like this one.
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There is plenty of unused space in Russia, sure its freezing cold but the land is not being used, people could live there.
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

RiderofHogs posted...

Offworlder1 posted...

Fix shit here on Earth before exploring space, stop wasting money on stupid shit and focus on keeping the planet from going to shit.

Almost all of our problems come from there being too many people on Earth.

What will happen when we have 11 billion in 2100?

Whatever happens will not be fun.
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So many haters itt
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Everyone who has ever doubted scientific progress has been wrong, and will be wrong. It's only ever a matter of time, or total human exinction. There's no inbetween.
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Offworlder1 posted...

There is plenty of unused space in Russia, sure its freezing cold but the land is not being used, people could live there.

Certainly easier to live there than on Mars or the Moon.

Let's just make it to the moon first
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bulletproofvita posted...

Let's just make it to the moon first

What?
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Star Ocean: Am I a joke to you?

josifrees posted...

The time period for earth death is billions of years and the time scales of space leave it completely irrational to attempt to colonize it unless you can teleport

Humans can die way before that
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Yes, I am excited about space exploration.
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When people say: "we should hold off exploring space until we fix the major problems here on Earth", it always comes off to me as "I'll hold off that visit to the doctor when I don't have so much work to do."

Human numbers are exponentially increasing, resources are dwindling and the environment isn't getting any better either. And that's just some of the pressing matters here on Earth. There are tons of other risks, both natural and human-caused that could have disasterous effects on humanity.

Expanding outward, searching for new resources andsetting up new colonies is the sensible thing to do, as this:
- expands the amount of resources and spurs scientific, technological and business developments (hopefully philosophical ones too).
- creates a back-up of human existence if something disasterous were to happen to humans on Earth.
- Let's be honest; exploring discovering new things out there is interesting and exciting in itself. It's a new big unknown.
I believe one of of the reasons humanity is so divided these days is due to a lack of a bigger goal to unify people, pointing them at a common goal. Colonization of Mars and space exploration in general can be such a goal (that doesn't involve world war).

So yeah, I'm pretty excited about space exploration
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Yep. I hope we meet a hyper advanced civilization that turns everything upside down.
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