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As if space travel won't fragment us more than we already are. I'm sorry, but I have to disagree here.
Unless we "get our shit together" here, I don't see how running to new planets will help anything.
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You make it sound like we can't do more than one thing at once. Pro tip: we can colonize other worlds AND sort out our problems at the same time
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We can try.
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Edited by Ric_Adbur: 4/16/2013 1:39:39 AMAs long as all of Humanity remains on only a single world, we are much more vulnerable to going extinct as a species. But it's far less likely that many different Human-inhabited worlds could all be destroyed simultaneously, leaving a much wider margin of error for our species' survival.
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Edited by Frost: 4/15/2013 10:15:11 PMI can't see this as a permanent solution to any of our current problems, we are too predictable in that way. I'm not saying it couldn't help, but I think it will only be a temporary remedy if it is one at all.
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This is true, but if you take that outlook onto it it becomes irrelevant if we survive. Once we conquer mars, we will need to conquer the solar system or else the sun expanding will destroy us. Once we conquer the solar system, we will need to escape the solar system before the sun shuts down. Once we're out of the solar system, who knows, they cycle continues. Yes, it is a narcissistic outlook, but will there ever be a place where humanity and life can simply relax know that we have achieved victory? And if compete salvation is what you have in mind then there is no point to trying to survive as there is none on the horizon. Nothing can sustain us forever, as everything falls apart according to entropy, the only way to try to escape is to constantly build more.