The Start of a New Era?

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Because some day the earth will meet its end either when the sun goes dead or if an asteroid storm hurls tons of deadly matter at the earth and we will need a place to continue living.

Even if the earth lasts another million years it might be nice to go to other planets and colonize.

I agree it might be nice but it would also be nice not to have to leave this one because we can't come together as humans to fix the current environmental problems. Or even come to the consensus that there is a problem.

On a side note i wonder if there will be any sexy blue aliens up there.
 

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Er,someone posted this earlier,QUOTE:
"....this is private money and you have no say in how its spent"
"....amazing what the private sector can do when the government gets out of the way"
That seems to me to be a fairly unequivical way of telling ME and the GOVERNMENT that jointly, we should have NO SAY and ipso facto leave all these decisions to the private sector,which in this context mean the same as carte blanche.So you have one latin quote and one French to add your collection,EITHER WAY THEY AMOUNT TO THE SAME THING.
P.S. Quite what 'hatred' has got do with anything,lord only knows.You do have a peculiar way of looking at things..
Yes that was my post and if you would notice Vince replied to it and I gave further explaination on my comment. Again, the government has no right in how the private sector spends thier money and I stand by that. You are attempting to turn it into something completely different which won't work on me.
You have an agenda and that is obvious and yes if you look back at your posts you used the word "hate".
See if you can give me some insight as to why the electric car has taken off?
 
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Yes that was my post and if you would notice Vince replied to it and I gave further explaination on my comment. Again, the government has no right in how the private sector spends thier money and I stand by that. You are attempting to turn it into something completely different which won't work on me.
You have an agenda and that is obvious and yes if you look back at your posts you used the word "hate".
See if you can give me some insight as to why the electric car has taken off?
So the wishes of the private sector now supercede that of the governments of the world and the people they represent??
That maybe a very American concept,but for the rest of the world any decisions regarding natural resources in space would inevitably be taken with reference to the rest of mankind,or maybe you think that US corporations have the right to copyright outer space??
Antartica is a supreme example of this.There is almost certainly vast mineral deposits available there to be had,but the GOVERMENTS of the world have an agreement not dispoil the enviroment in order to get at them,not withstanding who would actually be regarded as owning these resources in the first place??
One thing is certain,there is NO CHANCE of these vile corporations, you seem so fond of, ever redressing the situation 'down there' or even 'up there.'...So dream on.
 

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So the wishes of the private sector now supercede that of the governments of the world and the people they represent??
That maybe a very American concept,but for the rest of the world any decisions regarding natural resources in space would inevitably be taken with reference to the rest of mankind,or maybe you think that US corporations have the right to copyright outer space??
Antartica is a supreme example of this.There is almost certainly vast mineral deposits available there to be had,but the GOVERMENTS of the world have an agreement not dispoil the enviroment in order to get at them,not withstanding who would actually be regarded as owning these resources in the first place??
One thing is certain,there is NO CHANCE of these vile corporations, you seem so fond of, ever redressing the situation 'down there' or even 'up there.'...So dream on.
Again no answers just your line of crap. You are a waste of time.
 

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...and yet we are still using, pretty much, the same natural resources that were being used at the time of the industrial revolution,with all there inherent damaging by products.
All these 'promises' of new technologies are nothing new.60 years ago it was going to be nuclear power that was going to uniformaly change our lives and now we are relying on windmills (well turbines to posh them up) as the way ahead.In the meantime China,India and the US are spewing forth with ever increasing amounts of carbon waste.
Despite what you say, no one has suggested putting an end to finding alternatives,but what governs new sources of energy, is time scale and the fact that our population is growing out of control and at the rate we are going, we are not going to be ABLE to sit around waiting for a miracle renewable source of energy, that is both safe and commercial.Which is why politians are pushing solar,wind and wave alternatives.
'Talking up' finding these miracle alternatives from outer space is, as we stand, is no more than the basis for Steven Spielbergs' next film and not an immediate reality,not by a long chalk!! In the mean time we need to be REALISTIC about taking stock of our current situation,which was my initial post.Mankind is very good at extrapilating what wonders we will be doing in the future,it's a great shame that it doesn't seem too keen to examine the mess we have created in the present!!!
We like to think that these amazing new sources of new energy are going to JUST HAPPEN,however,if you look at,for example, electric cars they were using batteries to run cars in the first years of the 20th century and yet this technolgy still only enables us to move around with barely a hundred mile range!!!!...HARDLY PROGRESS!!!??
The issue with all of the above is political, really. You think car companies are throwing their weight behind the development of electric cars (or the actual future, hydrogen cells)? They'll only do it when it's in their interest economically and politically. What could be gained from re-routing the little comparative funding the space sector gets and chucking it at technology that's already developed but isn't politically/economically viable? That won't achieve much, if anything. I fail to see what you are actually suggesting as a solution.