> These reduction to absurdity arguments about the temperature of the earth assume we're not going to space. I don't understand why you reject this idea outrigh

> These reduction to absurdity arguments about the temperature of the earth assume we're not going to space. I don't understand why you reject this idea outright. Most people just want to stay home, they don't want to go anywhere, let alone space. Regardless of whether some humans or manmade probes go to space, inhabited regions need their growth to be checked in order to maintain a stable, long-term steady state, lest we want to keep shipping billions and billions of people from the center to ever-farther reaches of the galaxy (a logistical and humanitarian nightmare).