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How long until we colonize another planet

Posted by nickiscoolbeans

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we have everything we need but no one wants to do it. why?


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Reply by Kenzu

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Colonising another planet would create more problems than it solves. Imagine the wars and stuff that would happen because everyone is greedy <3


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Reply by SaranSDS008

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Cuz they re simply unsustainable, brutal, harsh, etc. Like Soviets back in 70s tried to land spacecrafts (a series of spacecrafts known as Venera similar to Apollo) into Venus, only for the whole equipment to be melted into pieces due to it being corroded by the non-ending 24/7 sulfuric acid rains. Landing in Neptune=Instant freeze (It's Antarctica, but 1200 times worse). Space is not a star war fantasy toy lol. It's basically a unforgiving hellhole filled with lifeless unforgiving planets, asteroids, bright burning nebulae, stars and.ever stretching wasteland of void called "space". Colonizing space and other planets is like setting up a city in middle of Siberia.


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Reply by astralkyouki

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1. Actually, we don't have everything we need yet to do this. We're not even capable yet of sending humans to Mars.

2. We COULD be at that point by now, except we're too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to make any effort towards space exploration. The only reason we went to the Moon is because of the Space Race/Cold War. Now that the world's superpowers are distracted by other things, very little progress has been made...

3. To everyone saying colonization is a bad idea, it's only bad if we discover an alien race and try to conquer them. Uninhabited planets can be made inhabitable with the right technology (the "Red Mars" trilogy presents some cool theories on how we can make this happen).


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Reply by astralkyouki

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1. Actually, we don't have everything we need yet to do this. We're not even capable yet of sending humans to Mars.

2. We COULD be at that point by now, except we're too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to make any effort towards space exploration. The only reason we went to the Moon is because of the Space Race/Cold War. Now that the world's superpowers are distracted by other things, very little progress has been made...

3. To everyone saying colonization is a bad idea, it's only bad if we discover an alien race and try to conquer them. Uninhabited planets can be made inhabitable with the right technology (the "Red Mars" trilogy presents some cool theories on how we can make this happen).


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