Will Humanity Colonize Space?

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What is the Furthest Extent Humanity Will Colonize Space?

  • We're never leaving Earth and/or going extinct before we're able to leave.

  • We'll visit other planets and maybe have temporary settlements, but we won't have permeant ones.

  • We'll have permeant settlements on other planets.

  • We'll leave the Solar System.

  • We'll colonize another star system and beyond.

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Rob Ford

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Do you think Humanity will eventually be able to colonize space? Like setting up bases or settlements on other planets and moons, traversing through space, leaving our Solar System, and beyond. Do you think it's possible? How do you think it would be done? What is the timeframe for it happening, if you think it will? Are there hot, sexy alien bitches out there? The questions are truly innumerable...
 
Humans would fuck space up, leave it alone, as it's the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism.

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The absolute delusion Musk followers have is unbelievable. They entirely ignore what a thousand experts say and instead go along with their cult leaders vision. You’ll get a base on the moon easily enough and it will be nothing more than an ISS type extension and there will probably be commercial mining for Helium 3; which will mostly be done by droids. You will Probably get tourism for the wealthy much like you have for Mt Everest for the wealthy who pretend they can climb.

As for Mars a few countries will land there, and some may even have a base for 3-5 people for a decade or so to survey it with a rotation but no real settlement. The planet is wholly worthless.

Any mining on asteroids is to be done by mostly droids. You will get a small rotation crew of a few people. This could potentially grow to be genuine enterprise in a century.

You’ll get an LEO hotel and science stations for certain; mostly for military and pharma research and this is what Elon and Bezos are literally banking on in addition to Moon base hardware for
Mining/military/tourism.

Essentially we are never leaving Earth’s Orbit by and large and ideas of space colonization is pure science fiction even with breakthroughs in energy production and propulsion. Elon isn’t delusional; he just knows what to say to a populace to get them excited and behind him from a public PR exercise.

Working on the LEO stations will not be fun. The hotels mildly so. Working on the moon bases will be even less so. Working on any asteroid mining will be even More depressing than an actual earth mine.

Being stuck on Mars for 2 years will be an honor, a privilege and utterly depressing. The stupid goal of mars won’t bankrupt Elon; it will bankrupt the stupid countries dumb enough to think planting a flag on it means something and waste a trillion dollars on a PR stunt - again, Bezos and Musk are banking on this stupidity. And if they are dumb enough to want a big base in there, why wouldn’t you take their money?

Finally it must be said that possibly fusion reactors may have to be built in space thanks to no atmosphere, convection issues and zero gravity and energy beam transmission to power earths appetite for energy or giant solar arrays - but this isn’t colonization and again, Musk and Elon are banking on this being possible too.

Space has tightly defined perimeters for what is commercially viable and breeding humans isn’t one of them.
 
Anyone doing a cursory nuts and bolts inquiry into the logistics of space exploration soon discovers why the Fermi Paradox is a thing. It is massively expensive in every conceivable way with next to no returns. Intelligent life flourishes and dies in the place it was born, in a timeframe that is but a blink of an eye on the cosmic scale.
 
Unless there's some revolutionary technology around the corner that could greatly marginalize the burdening costs of space exploration(and exploitation), I don't see any viable future in space. Theres only a hand full of actual nations who have the economic and demographic capability to materialize any semblance of being spacefaring. The most important thing is that there is no actual REAL incentive for it because of the aforementioned costs and the minimal reward unless you highly value a nation's vanity, not to mention it came off as a more of a fad in the way it captivated peoples interests initially so justifying sunken cost into these projects has had depreciating value over time. To me the biggest reason we would ever leave our favorite shithole would be the acquisition of resources to sustain our consumerist economies, the biggest issue with this is logistics, the substantial cost of exiting our atmosphere and coming back with tonnes of resources in order to justify the initial cost while also figuring out how to actually bring said resources back here cohesively and more importantly profitably is quite a pickle to figure out, which again would probably require some revolutionary technology that would make this business model profitable and as a byproduct enable long term colonial ventures in space.
 
It is very important to have transcendental dreams, the way Romans planted trees by the roads in northern Africa as a way to help incentivize upkeep of the road even though it took a lifetime for the tree to grow big enough to serve its purpose. The way Europeans built churches that took 3 to 4 generations to finish. These dreams are essential not just for the common purpose, but also towards leaving something better for future generations. It's important that we do not just extract from what future people might have. This is one of the issues with global homo and so many rulers without children. They have no stake in the future and will as gladly sell it as Greece sold their future to Goldman Sachs with clever accounting tricks.

Since we are a deeply unspiritual people disconnected from transcendental ideas, you can only get stuff done with exaggerated promises that can not be fulfilled. It's basicly "flatten the curve in 2 weeks" but on generational scale. You promise to get it done in half a lifetime and it's going to take three lifetimes, but now you're hooked in, the way doomsday cult believers start to believe more rather than less after a promised doomsday failed to arrive. It's the only way to actually make it happen. Or fuckoff with all the money. That's the challenge.
 
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No. Space is empty. There is no reason for us to go there, and any human off of planet earth would be helplessly dependent on very expensive shipments from planet earth. Anywhere that is not earth is just way worse for life which evolved on earth.

I just don't see any reason why? We haven't even colonized Antarctica or the abyssal plains, which would be wayyyyy easier.
 
Yes. We will. To the infinity and beyond.

The nation to first successfully colonize and militarize space will have an absolute stranglehold on the future and China is already planning to do so. They are the ones with the vision and patience for plans spanning decades. If we are lucky, it will start a new Space Race. If we aren't the universe just falls in their lap and the rest of the Earth can console themselves with "atleast we had some really SICK quarterlies!"
 
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