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Originally Posted by Misto (Post 1399309)

If we aren't developing technology to send people to distant planets for colonization then we shouldn't be in outerspace at all.

This. Human kind is a virus on the body known as the earth, a body we are killing. Humanity needs to get back on track and learn to spread elsewhere before we annihilate ourselves.

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Originally Posted by KagaKawaiitob (Post 1399323)

This. Human kind is a virus on the body known as the earth, a body we are killing. Humanity needs to get back on track and learn to spread elsewhere before we annihilate ourselves.

fuck your platonics

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Originally Posted by KagaKawaiitob (Post 1399323)

This. Human kind is a virus on the body known as the earth, a body we are killing. Humanity needs to get back on track and learn to spread elsewhere before we annihilate ourselves.

im confused. are you saying that it is our responsibility to destroy everything? humans not colonizing is like keeping h1n1 inside of the petri dish.

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Originally Posted by Lron (Post 1399208)

We are vastly more intelligent than millions of life forms that have literally no idea we even exist even when we are right on top of them because we cant communicate with them in any substantial way because of the intelligence and awareness gap.

What makes you think we aren't like the ants of the cosmos when it comes to intelligent life forms, and there are species all around us that we are unaware of and that cant communicate with us because our senses and how we are evolved dont all ow us to?

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Originally Posted by Lron (Post 1399436)

Neil degrasse tyson disagrees with you.

Why would we want to colonize all these different planets that we know are lethal to life forms when we can just use the technology to better our living conditions and sustain our future of our species on a planet that is specifically ideal because of our evolution here?

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Originally Posted by phacemeltar (Post 1399490)

im confused. are you saying that it is our responsibility to destroy everything? humans not colonizing is like keeping h1n1 inside of the petri dish.

Lron you're my hero. Seriously. You are very on point here.

Submitted for your consideration, something someone on weed once told me that I am in no position to say is true or not because I don't know enough about astronomy, but it's interesting to think about:

The celestial bodies of the universe are slowly drifting further and further apart. The longer we wait to colonize other planet, the less likely we will ever even be able to reach them. Additionally, planets that are currently uninhabitable due to being too close in proximity to their respective stars (eg Venus) will one day be more habitable because they will be farther away (Venus is a bad example because it's a gas planet). Likewise, planets that are currently habitable will eventually be too far away from their suns to continue being so.

Thoughts?

Actually no, that's not it, we're not getting further from the stars, it's galaxies that are drifting

I wish we had edit on this board sometimes

Lron made sense in this thread my life is pretty fucking complete now.

My 2 cents:

A lot of great inventions were lucky mistakes. One day such a great invention will not be a not-so-lucky mistake and wipe out humanity.

This fate probably awaits every intelligent species. At some point it will annihilate itself, by mistake or not. And chances are, this happens before any major space travel was ever conducted.