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If we stick around long enough, then colonizing and terraforming the solar system where possible would provide most of the growth. Luna, Mars, Venus, the Belt,
by goatlover 5y ago
If we stick around long enough, then colonizing and terraforming the solar system where possible would provide most of the growth. Luna, Mars, Venus, the Belt, and some moons around the gas giants would be candidates. Eventually, we might figure out ways to expand to other nearby star systems with good enough tech to support it.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoWe can't get people to survive in a closed environment on Earth, or even get scientists to create a liveable ecosystem in a lab... With all the resources available at hands. I'm not actively against Mars colonization only because I trust it will fail and give us a good reason to care about the unique and fragile habitat we have here on Earth. I'm not hoping for a failure, I'm just intimately convinced that we won't manage to survive on other rocks without really trying here first.
- goatlover 5y agoI'm talking long term, if human civilization lasts for thousands of more years. Then it becomes more reasonable. I agree that this century it's a much harder sell and largely out of reach. We should focus most of our efforts on Earth for now, without abandoning some space exploration. Space programs, telescopes and SETI are good things we should continue doing.