But creating and maintaining space colonies will use huge amounts of these resources. I would think resources would be lost overall by getting them from somewhere in space.
Asteroid mining is a big thing, with virtually limitless amounts of resources.
How will this happen? We haven't discovered any plant life in space yet and terrestrial plants certainly can't survive on any other known body.
Growing crops from Earth in modified greenhouses. Does that answer your question?
Of course we'll have to move into space. This is not a financial issue. anyone who thinks that we cannot do this because of money: open your eyes! this is not about money! this is about the survival of our species! and besides you'll make money from the resouces on other planets anyway!
Well I see one big problem, we run into some unknown virus or disease early on into our space travel colonization and get wiped out from it.
That's paranoia though lol...
Eventually when our science become apt enough we will have to from either to large a population, global warming, lack of resources or most likely all three
Of course we should! Our species is fragile, one comet or asteroid could make us a memory. A gamma ray burst or any of the millions of ways the galaxy could kill us are more reasons why the human race should spread out. Then the abundance of metals and the ease of access, especially if you mine the asteroid belt.
And for people traveling at the speed of light or close to means you don't age like everyone outside of your perspective. You barely age at all really.
Asteroid mining is a big thing, with virtually limitless amounts of resources.
Oh, okay, that makes sense.
Growing crops from Earth in modified greenhouses. Does that answer your question?
Yes and no. With my most recent question I was inquiring as to how the settlers would be able to feed themselves, thus being self-sufficient as you said would be required.
Listen, none of this stuff will happen until we are able to break the speed of light, or at least prevent aging by cryogenics or something. Humans are not made to last years in space, and we can't go past Mars unless what I said earlier, happens.
Or if we discover some sort of traveling way, like wormholes.
How will this happen? We haven't discovered any plant life in space yet and terrestrial plants certainly can't survive on any other known body.
Actually, NASA is seriously taking the option of terraforming as a possibility for Mars. And the best part, we would have the technology to do it.
The first half of your opinion just explained answered why we would want to do the second half of your opinion.
the second sentance was just if someone thought" dude are you serious" but we do have a population on a planate that cant sustain us in the 6billion strong population or so and we bread more like rats as far as the environment is conserned were rats with a gundestoying the world if we ever leave its because we wont have a choice because wed run out of oxogen.
