Colonising a new planet?

[K6-III]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
Doesn't interest me much. I enjoy what we've built already here on Earth. Why spoil it and go to Mars? IMO Mars will not be a beautiful planet for many thousands of years. Bleh. Ok, maybe you'll have greeen houses but that's it.

Yeah...and someone has to ensure that future generations get such a world.....

...be it the moon...or Mars...or someplace else.....

...and I feel it our obligation to make it so...

[KRSESQ]

People have traditionally come to the US to escape political, religious, and economic freedom. If colonists leave Earth for another world, it will be to escape those things that make life here intolerable i.e. pollution, overpopulation, terrorism, loss of privacy, etc.

Most of us in the US, in fact in the entire western world, can't imagine what could make people abandon all they've known to plunge into the unknown the way our ancestors did. Truth is, even America's original immigrants came here to escape SOMETHING, to seek a better life, fresh hunting grounds, SOMETHING. It's a biological imperative we've been trying to ignor, and maybe that's one reason for all the strife we've been suffering over the last few decades.

Kevin

[Technoid]

Originally posted by KRSESQ
Anyone want to bet that if we do find an Earthlike world somewhere, our immune systems wouldn't be able to tolerate the local pathogens/allergens to the point that going outside without a full space suit would be fatal?

Likewise, the pathogens we bring with us could wipe out all life on the planet.

Absent those two factors, sure I'd go. In a heartbeat.

Kevin

You are oversimplifieing.....

mayby 10% of the have that problem and 15% can be fixed by medications, 25% has big problems but not fatal, 25% are only anoyed and tle last 25% is only anoyed by the local version of giant mosquito

[K6-III]

Let us not assume that colonization will be easy....for it will take many generations of toil to make anything habitable...

....the sooner we start the sooner it is ready....

[KRSESQ]

Jeez...Can you tell I haven't been sleeping nights?

People have traditionally come to the US to escape political, religious, and economic freedom.

Read "freedom" as "oppression."

Only took me 14 hours to notice. I'm doing better than normal.

Kevin