Should we Inhabit Another planet?

[blackjack50]

If we find another planter that we could live on? Should humans try and colonize it? What do you think?

 

[Gardener]

Yes.

It is high time we stopped deluding ourselves, and finally accepting our role as vermin of the universe.

 

[blackjack50]

Yes.

It is high time we stopped deluding ourselves, and finally accepting our role as vermin of the universe.

It is a serious question. If we COULD...should we?

 

[OrphanSlug]

If capable, why would we not?

 

[DaveFagan]

If capable, why would we not?

The track record of the Human Race as stewards of planetary life support systems would indicate that we are a danger to all life support systems. From a medical point of view the species should probably be quarantined to planet Earth.

 

[iliveonramen]

The track record of the Human Race as stewards of planetary life support systems would indicate that we are a danger to all life support systems. From a medical point of view the species should probably be quarantined to planet Earth.

This is true...when movies have races of aliens that go from world to world destroying it and stripping it of all life and natural resources...that's freaking humankind. We're the bad guys.

 

[Gardener]

It is a serious question. If we COULD...should we?

My answer was implicit in my reply, and the astute reader should be able to deduce the seriousness behind the joke.

 

[blackjack50]

This is true...when movies have races of aliens that go from world to world destroying it and stripping it of all life and natural resources...that's freaking humankind. We're the bad guys.

Unless of course...the people you send to space are the ones looking to sustain life. Also:

You are one of the bad guys

 

[Tim the plumber]

The chance of there being any planet we could live on at all in this galaxy is remote.

The possibility of constructing large habitats which we can make into paradises is very real and will start to happen this century.

 

[Gathomas88]

Yes.

It is high time we stopped deluding ourselves, and finally accepting our role as vermin of the universe.

To quote Men In Black, "Kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?" :mrgreen:

In answer to the OP's question, not only yes, but HELL YES. The sooner we can start expanding our pool of available resources off world, the better.

 

[Gathomas88]

The track record of the Human Race as stewards of planetary life support systems would indicate that we are a danger to all life support systems. From a medical point of view the species should probably be quarantined to planet Earth.

:roll:

 

[fmw]

Yes.

It is high time we stopped deluding ourselves, and finally accepting our role as vermin of the universe.

An anti human human. Curious.

 

[Gardener]

The chance of there being any planet we could live on at all in this galaxy is remote.

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Hardly.

The current estimate for the number of planets in our galaxy is 100 billion. We have already found one (Gleise 581g) just 20 light years from here that lies in the goldilocks zone and is Earth-like in terms of size, composition and gravity.

WE have only begun to scratch the very surface of the surface of the surface.

 

[Occam's Razor]

The track record of the Human Race as stewards of planetary life support systems would indicate that we are a danger to all life support systems. From a medical point of view the species should probably be quarantined to planet Earth.

To quote Men In Black, "Kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?" :mrgreen:

In answer to the OP's question, not only yes, but HELL YES. The sooner we can start expanding our pool of available resources off world, the better.

With increasing technology (never mind population growth) comes exponential demands on energy and resources. If humans survive the next million years and presuming continued tech advancement, our energy and resource requirements will outstrip 1/4 of that available in our entire galaxy.

So there are three choices..
Do nothing different and perish as a species.
Learn to live and reproduce within the limits of the world we live on (massive depopulation)
Defeat the speed limit of light and colonize other worlds.

 

[DaveFagan]

With increasing technology (never mind population growth) comes exponential demands on energy and resources. If humans survive the next million years and presuming continued tech advancement, our energy and resource requirements will outstrip 1/4 of that available in our entire galaxy.

So there are three choices..
Do nothing different and perish as a species.
Learn to live and reproduce within the limits of the world we live on (massive depopulation)[/B]
Defeat the speed limit of light and colonize other worlds.

Bold/red-The well funded think tanks will have reached these conclusions many years ago and it gives ammunition to the arguments, perhaps conspiracy theorists, that Ebola and such are being tested as a prelude to population control. After all, those that can afford their own bubble can feel secure in any event. Their objectivity and subjectivity are not the same as 99% of the population, eh?

 

[CanadaJohn]

The track record of the Human Race as stewards of planetary life support systems would indicate that we are a danger to all life support systems. From a medical point of view the species should probably be quarantined to planet Earth.

I'd just say that's nonsense. The track record, to the contrary, would suggest that the human stewards of planetary life support systems have greatly improved the lives and extended the lives of the vast majority of humans and of many other life forms on the planet as well.

 

[Tim the plumber]

Hardly.

The current estimate for the number of planets in our galaxy is 100 billion. We have already found one (Gleise 581g) just 20 light years from here that lies in the goldilocks zone and is Earth-like in terms of size, composition and gravity.

WE have only begun to scratch the very surface of the surface of the surface.

Sure. Does it have a breathable atmosphere? Enough O2? Too much? The right level of CO2? Any SO4? Enough oceans? All ocean?

 

[Gathomas88]

With increasing technology (never mind population growth) comes exponential demands on energy and resources. If humans survive the next million years and presuming continued tech advancement, our energy and resource requirements will outstrip 1/4 of that available in our entire galaxy.

So there are three choices..
Do nothing different and perish as a species.
Learn to live and reproduce within the limits of the world we live on (massive depopulation)
Defeat the speed limit of light and colonize other worlds.

Frankly, when you get right down to it, there aren't even that many options available. Our choices ultimately boil down to "leave, or die."

Whether it be by asteroid, comet, supervolcano, solar flare, climate change, or some other method we haven't yet imagined, this planet will, at some point, experience another extinction level event. Our best bet for surviving it as a species is to simply have a population somewhere else when it occurs.

Besides, the new resources opened up by interplanetary and interstellar exploration and exploitation would make the Industrial Revolution look like a footnote. The sky would, quite literally, "be the limit" on what we could achieve with a permanent presence in space.

 

[blackjack50]

The chance of there being any planet we could live on at all in this galaxy is remote.

The possibility of constructing large habitats which we can make into paradises is very real and will start to happen this century.

Unlikely? There are how many millions of planets? And moons too?

 

[Dragonfly]

If we find another planter that we could live on? Should humans try and colonize it? What do you think?

As long as the reason for doing so wasn't purely for greed, and/or to basically rape and pillage every conceivable resource on the new planet for Earth, sure. Why not?

 

[blackjack50]

As long as the reason for doing so wasn't purely for greed, and/or to basically rape and pillage every conceivable resource on the new planet for Earth, sure. Why not?

Would that be wrong? If said planet had no life? Or maybe simply no life beyond the intelligence of crabs and that kind of thing?

 

[Dragonfly]

Would that be wrong? If said planet had no life? Or maybe simply no life beyond the intelligence of crabs and that kind of thing?

If humans can live on it, then yes, using it, and then leaving a wasted shell of a planet like an empty candy wrapper would be wrong.

If given a chance to live on another planet, I'd hope we'd try to be much better inhabitants of the new planet than we have been to the original planet.

 

[Ockham]

It is a serious question. If we COULD...should we?

What possible reason would there to NOT colonize another planet?

 

[Medusa]

If we find another planter that we could live on? Should humans try and colonize it? What do you think?

as a human I wouldnt want to be a part of the process of destroying another planet.but yes I would like to travel to all possible galaxies

 

[Goshin]

Of course we should try. It is our nature to explore and expand, and in our best interests.


About the only persons who say otherwise are human-hating-humans whose minds have been poisoned by environmental extremism.