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Earth also has oppressive Governments and regulations, difficult established social and demographic limitations, areas of protected natural landscape, and a dee
by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Earth also has oppressive Governments and regulations, difficult established social and demographic limitations, areas of protected natural landscape, and a deep gravity well.
Its also all pretty much 'owned' by someone already.
Mars, and the moon, make reasonable bases of operation for asteroid mining and off-Earth manufacturing.
Whoever gets there first can lay claim to and do whatever they want.
For a tiny fraction of the amount of wealth we dedicate to the pensions and healthcare of baby boomers (typically 50% of Government budgets in most Western countries), we can easily support private companies like SpaceX to colonise the solar system.
Establishing ourselves on harsh planets will help us to appreciate Earth more, and provide a motivation for us to continue developing new technologies and techniques - to conquer 'the frontier'.
- kaba0 5y agoSo let me get this straight. A private company getting there first from tax-payed money can get ultimately rich and own the discovered places? How is it a good thing at all?! Fortunately, I highly doubt it to happen in the next century (the asteroid mining)
- paxys 5y agoPeople caused all these problems on Earth, and we will inevitably take them with us to Mars and everywhere else.
- ArkanExplorer 5y agoIts reasonable to imagine that a planet founded by scientists and engineers, and populated only by scientists and engineers, will not have the problems found on Earth. You would probably have a society composed solely of people with 120+ IQs, for example, which would present an amazing gene pool for further population expansion.
- throwawayboise 5y agoWe have been able to go to the moon for 50 years, but nobody has created a base of operations for any activity there.