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Originally Posted by Thor
Well mostly because it is just a matter of time before we get hit with another large asteroid or comet. There's countless reasons as to why, space is a dangerous place, not to mention we are not doing too great on earth either with our little home.
Mostly its for that reason, the unknown dangers, we already know of many things that could end life on earth, so the sooner we get established off world the better.
Cracked had fun with this, 7 things that could destroy us without warning:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19117...t-warning.html |
I agree with a matter of time, I agree it's something we should be doing more about. But in a space age, a few hundred years isn't even a thing. We've existed a million years, we can surely exist 100 more.
Unless you have a specific asteroid you are worried about, this seems more like fear and jealousy, than any real statistical concern.
You know I love you Thor. We agree with nearly everything, and I even agree with you on this on principle. We should be doing more for space exploration, and we should be doing more for asteroid prevention. But human advancement doesn't turn on a dime. It takes what we know as lifetimes.
And in a cosmic sense, that's very fast.
As I said, in the last two hundred years we've crushed the knowledge we had of the past 6000. We can take another 200 to get a real foothold in space.
It's sucks you and I probably won't see it. But maybe we can contribute?