ChrisL
Diamond Member
What irritates me about this concept of finding another planet that is habital for earthlings to go to is...we fucked up with one so now everyone is supposed to bail it and go fuck up another one with the same o same o?
A bear shits in the woods but doesn't bring it home. This whole planet has been shit on and brought home. Instead of cleaning it up, another one is being sought.
Well... Ultimately, we're going to have to leave this planet one way or another if we want to survive.
Between super volcanoes, asteroids, comets, climate shifts, solar flares, and all the rest, the odds are basically 100% that some kind of catastrophe will eventually hit this planet, and wipe us all out regardless of how well we treat the environment.
It's happened several times before. Just look at the dinosaurs, for instance.
Besides which, the potential resources that can be exploited outside of this planet are basically limitless. If we ever manage to make asteroid mining feasible, for example, it'd probably make the Industrial Revolution look like a mere footnote. lol
Damn . . . I need a planet that has trees and grass and flowers, and all that good stuff. When we talk about inhabiting another planet, all I can think about is a barren desolate wasteland.
Well, to be fair, we probably could make other planets more like Earth with the proper technology.
Terraforming - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Hell! For all we know, there might even be a few planets like Earth out there already. We'd just have to find them.
(And hope no one else was already living there ).
Interesting! That sounds rather difficult and super expensive though.