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It’s very possible we have about as much chance of colonising the nearest star as an ant colony has of getting from Australia to America. In which case our ear
by simmerup 5y ago
It’s very possible we have about as much chance of colonising the nearest star as an ant colony has of getting from Australia to America.
In which case our earth will probably end up looking like one of those suffocated ponds that expanded too fast for its given resources.
- wincy 5y agoBut animals have gone from one continent to another on land rafts [0], so it’s not entirely impossible. And it only has to happen once. [0] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sailed-across-the-atlantic-to-south-america http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sai...
- simmerup 5y agoI meant by conscious effort. However, if you’re happy with this, I guess we could just launch balls of biological matter at different planets and be content that in a few thousand years the balls may land and start the seed of life. But it wouldn’t help us much…
- emteycz 5y agoWhy colonize the nearest star - we have plenty of space around the Sun and surrounding it is more than enough material to construct countless O'Neill cylinders?
- simmerup 5y agoThis is definitely possible and very cool, though I'm not sure I'd ever want to live in a space settlement. But the OP aims for galaxy-scale settlement, which is the context I was replying too