Why does humanity want to colonize space now?

[FighterSoldier]

Humanity can't even solve their own problems here on planet Earth, so why do they want to colonize space now? They will just spread their own problems onto other planets!

[FighterSoldier]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Because scientists know that Earth will be uninhabitable at some point.

So humanity just wants to avoid extinction?

[MinionJoe]

Because Earth is a zero-sum game.

If you want the post-scarcity economy required for TRUE socialism to work, you need resources from space.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

But we can mine more junk from space to scatter it around the earth!

[Grumb]

In my view, humanity’s future depends on it, and that’s putting all the Earth destruction doomerism aside. And there’s not nearly enough money being put into it in my opinion. If I could work on terraforming science I would, but that stuff unfortunately gets zero funding.

[xDDD]

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

Escrito originalmente por Zebrant:

You're a bit pessimistic.
I think, in a hypothetical situation where this would happen, humanity would spread its empathy and ingenuity to other planets. We are masters of our domain, we could turn a garbage desolate planet into a lush paradise.

But if you think realistically, it would be more logical for humanity to fix their own problems in their home planet before colonizing space.

What problems and fix them how? I'm guessing several of them are unfixable because they are a product of a populated civilization.
And you're speaking as if we're going to go colonizing other planets tomorrow. Idgaf about what Elon says about Mars, we are not going to be doing that anytime within the foreseeable future if ever. .

[sfnhltb]

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

Escrito originalmente por Zebrant:

You're a bit pessimistic.
I think, in a hypothetical situation where this would happen, humanity would spread its empathy and ingenuity to other planets. We are masters of our domain, we could turn a garbage desolate planet into a lush paradise.

But if you think realistically, it would be more logical for humanity to fix their own problems in their home planet before colonizing space.

Seeing as humanity will never fix all problems on own home planet, this just sets an impossible bar.

Besides once there is sufficiently loading capacity of humans in space, they can fix any serious problem on the home planet by lobbing asteroids at wherever is the problem until the problems go away.

This is why it is most likely that any species that becomes spacefaring will likely never go back down a gravity well again for the rest of its existence (or at least not more than a neglible portion of its population), because it would require a huge amount of resources to protect against an incoming rock from any direction at any speed at any moment, whereas any facilities in space can just move out the way once a threat is detected.

[GunsForBucks]

We either expand or find a good way to limit population.

Limiting population comes with the economic reality of limited growth.

Wars are really inefficient ways to limit population. Although if China takes over the WHO and we join them we could be forced with limited children per family or even forced sterilization.

So IDK out of all those I choose to expand off planet.

Better than viruses or poison food supplies etc etc etc

[MEGA MAN]

Escrito originalmente por Choccy:

To clap them alien cheeks.

im in >.<*

[Talby]

Colonize space? another leftist outrage in 3, 2, 1...

[FighterSoldier]

Escrito originalmente por Zebrant:

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

But if you think realistically, it would be more logical for humanity to fix their own problems in their home planet before colonizing space.

What problems and fix them how? I'm guessing several of them are unfixable because they are a product of a populated civilization.
And you're speaking as if we're going to go colonizing other planets tomorrow. Idgaf about what Elon says about Mars, we are not going to be doing that anytime within the foreseeable future if ever. .

So many problems that I couldn't possibly list every single problem here in this thread.

Here are just some examples:

1. Wars
2. Crime
3. Poverty
4. Corruption
5. Diseases
6. Starvation

There are many more problems of course. Now I know that some problems are unfixable, but if humanity really wants to colonize space, the most logical thing for them here is to fix as much problems as they can in their home planet before colonizing space. If humanity just decides to colonize space now, they will just spread their own problems onto other planets.

And just think about it, if humanity fixes their own problems in their own home planet and then colonize space, then they won't have to worry about spreading their own problems onto other planets.

[Irene ❤]

Because the problem needs an upgrade. e.g. Space Wars

[Mauserich]

Is that what they want? It's being propagated, but I haven't heard any decisions yet. As far as we know, it doesn't really make sense because the dimensions are too big.

[xDDD]

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

Escrito originalmente por Zebrant:

What problems and fix them how? I'm guessing several of them are unfixable because they are a product of a populated civilization.
And you're speaking as if we're going to go colonizing other planets tomorrow. Idgaf about what Elon says about Mars, we are not going to be doing that anytime within the foreseeable future if ever. .

So many problems that I couldn't possibly list every single problem here in this thread.

Here are just some examples:

1. Wars
2. Crime
3. Poverty
4. Corruption
5. Diseases
6. Starvation

There are many more problems of course. Now I know that some problems are unfixable, but if humanity really wants to colonize space, the most logical thing for them here is to fix as much problems as they can in their home planet before colonizing space. If humanity just decides to colonize space now, they will just spread their own problems onto other planets.

And just think about it, if humanity fixes their own problems in their own home planet and then colonize space, then they won't have to worry about spreading their own problems onto other planets.

Basically everything you listed is an unfixable problem lol
Frankly the pursuit of fixing half of those would lead to a dystopian $#!%hole of a planet.

[Xautos]

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

Why does humanity want to colonize space now?

Because no one wants to make the hard choices we are currently dealing with and it's easier to kick the can down the road for the next generation to deal with. By seeking space and new planets, we can repeat the mistakes of the past on new planets and push off those problems we face now to a few hundred years from now when those planets can't sustain those numbers of humans that are breeding all out of control, consuming resources at an alarming rate.

[GunsForBucks]

Escrito originalmente por FighterSoldier:

Escrito originalmente por Zebrant:

What problems and fix them how? I'm guessing several of them are unfixable because they are a product of a populated civilization.
And you're speaking as if we're going to go colonizing other planets tomorrow. Idgaf about what Elon says about Mars, we are not going to be doing that anytime within the foreseeable future if ever. .

So many problems that I couldn't possibly list every single problem here in this thread.

Here are just some examples:

1. Wars
2. Crime
3. Poverty
4. Corruption
5. Diseases
6. Starvation

There are many more problems of course. Now I know that some problems are unfixable, but if humanity really wants to colonize space, the most logical thing for them here is to fix as much problems as they can in their home planet before colonizing space. If humanity just decides to colonize space now, they will just spread their own problems onto other planets.

And just think about it, if humanity fixes their own problems in their own home planet and then colonize space, then they won't have to worry about spreading their own problems onto other planets.

Look it will work out great. We just send the useless third of our population into space to colonize for us. Like the hairdressers, phone sanitizers and investment bankers that don't actually do anything because when you get to a new planet you really want a nice haircut, a clean phone and a broker.