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1. Adventure, exploration. 2. The earth will be destroyed by the changing Sun in a few 100 million years. :) 3. Better to not have 10x the human population her

1. Adventure, exploration. 2. The earth will be destroyed by the changing Sun in a few 100 million years. :) 3. Better to not have 10x the human population here. Leave big open spaces for the other animals and national parks. I'm sure there are other reasons too...

badrabbit 6y ago
I mean I wasn't saying why you would want to. I was questioning why "we need to"
- elboru 6y ago
  Why did Humans need to move out of Africa?
- xcasperx 6y ago
  The main goal of any species is to survive/reproduce. We don't know if there's any other intelligent life in the universe, or how common it is. The one thing we do know is that we haven't found any. There could be many reasons for this, and one of those is the Fermi Paradox (great filter). Whether this is a real thing or not we don't know, but by establishing sustainable settlements in space, we hedge against the idea of us dying out via ourselves, asteroids, etc.
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  - justinator 6y ago
    As they say, "There is no Planet B".
  - VRay 6y ago
    If there are space aliens hanging around, they likely wouldn't contact us Just seeing them would give us a huge technological leg up. Right now we don't know that interstellar travel is readily feasible, but if we did know that then it would suddenly make sense to spend 100 times as much on space tech Considering what a bunch of jerks we are to each other, I don't think aliens would want us roaming around freely
    - xcasperx 6y ago
      Yeah, there's really no reason for them too. If they are able to do interstellar travel, resource harvesting (from asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns) is relatively simple. The thing is, I don't think it'd matter technologically. I don't think a kardashev 1 civilization could ever catch up to a kardashev 2 civilization. Maybe once they've reached a "technological plateau" it becomes mutually assured destruction? But instead of nukes, it's targeted gamma-ray bursts? Who knows...

badrabbit 6y ago

I mean I wasn't saying why you would want to. I was questioning why "we need to"

elboru 6y ago
Why did Humans need to move out of Africa?
xcasperx 6y ago
The main goal of any species is to survive/reproduce. We don't know if there's any other intelligent life in the universe, or how common it is. The one thing we do know is that we haven't found any. There could be many reasons for this, and one of those is the Fermi Paradox (great filter). Whether this is a real thing or not we don't know, but by establishing sustainable settlements in space, we hedge against the idea of us dying out via ourselves, asteroids, etc.
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- justinator 6y ago
  As they say, "There is no Planet B".
- VRay 6y ago
  If there are space aliens hanging around, they likely wouldn't contact us Just seeing them would give us a huge technological leg up. Right now we don't know that interstellar travel is readily feasible, but if we did know that then it would suddenly make sense to spend 100 times as much on space tech Considering what a bunch of jerks we are to each other, I don't think aliens would want us roaming around freely
  - xcasperx 6y ago
    Yeah, there's really no reason for them too. If they are able to do interstellar travel, resource harvesting (from asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and suns) is relatively simple. The thing is, I don't think it'd matter technologically. I don't think a kardashev 1 civilization could ever catch up to a kardashev 2 civilization. Maybe once they've reached a "technological plateau" it becomes mutually assured destruction? But instead of nukes, it's targeted gamma-ray bursts? Who knows...