| LoathsomePete |
11-26-2010 11:40 PM |
Am I the only one who on first thought after reading the thread title thought "Huh... this seems like an awfully expensive way to euthanize the elderly." Then after reading the article I thought "A planet inhabited by the elderly... not exactly going to be a popular holiday destination."
On a more serious note I do believe that space exploration will be necessary for our survival as a species in the next couple hundred years. At the rate we're going, Earth will be uninhabitable and we will have to start colonizing other places, but I mean I also look at it as the next logical step forward in our evolution as a species. We started in Africa, migrated North, then moved over to Asia, then back to Africa, then into Europe, then we set sail for the New World and Australia/ New Guinea, exploring off world planets would just be a more grand version of what the Vikings did a couple hundred years before that other guy. Hell if we could create the technology to terraform a planet into something habitable like Earth there is no telling how far our species could advance.
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