> Encapsulating and packaging our civilisation also means creating a backup of our knowledge, You don't need to go to space to do that. It is much, much easie

> Encapsulating and packaging our civilisation also means creating a backup of our knowledge, You don't need to go to space to do that. It is much, much easier to build such "backups" on Earth, in the form of underground bunkers or something. As a matter of fact, such facilities already exist, for instance the Svalbard Global Seed Vault[1], or any of the secret bunkers built during cold war[2]. Survivalism is a terrible reason for colonizing space, for space is a very hostile environment in the first place, so it makes very little sense to consider it as a place to rely on for survival. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault 2: http://io9.com/the-secret-world-of-underground-bunkers-511609185 http://io9.com/the-secret-world-of-underground-bunkers-51160...