The Mars Colony

Skybird · 07-09-10, 01:26 PM

I think we will have deleted ourselves long before the term "space colony" and "stellar empire" could start to make sense for us. "Stellar sailors" we want to see ourselves as? Right now we are not more than a kid on the beach, throwing little stones at the waves, and running away when they roll up the beach, frightened.

And before entropy - if it turns out to bbe true - ever could make a difference for mankind's ongoing existence in this universe, many billion more years must go by. To make entropy an argument why we should embark on conquering space, is a bit far fetched, for my taste.

the truth is much more profane, I fear: we have depleted out ressources in reach of us long before we could even be dreaming of colonizing otger pkanets to a degree that it would a difference for the evolutionary path of mankind. Our technological and high civilisation will fall, leaving future generations to live on the level of small tribes living by the ways of hunters and gatherers again.

Actually, it might even be a good thing for life on Earth if we do not start to pump ressources from other stellar objects into the system of earth'S planetosphere. it would change balances between substances and chemical agtns to a degree beyond that level that would be possible if we only deal with what is available to us on this planet. And if we even cannot reach a consenus on how our current modern messing-ups of the biosphere and ecosphere is creating what effect for Earth, and if we even cannot reliably calculate the longterm consequences of our modern playing around with the elem,nts of the pplanetosphere we already hav ein reach right here on Earth - how much more unable must we be to reliably forsee how it could change Earth's fate if we start to bring even more for example carbon from extraterrestrial sources into the internal Earth-based cycle of chemical interaction. - Not that we are close to being able to industrially exploit ressources on the moon in large scale.

Optimism is one thing. Fantasizing is a different one. and this talking of space colonization and stellar empires and industrial exploitation of foreign stellar objects, to me is currently just - nothing. We even cannot reliably opertae a simple space sation without running into problems time and again, a space station that is not even a space staion becasue it is still embedde din the upper layers of earth's atmopshere.

That far out into space we reach with our "space travelling" ...!

And it is very liekly, that even in a most optimal future setting, we wpuld not reach out into space purselves, but send robots and probe droids, or discover other forms of travelling, via mind and spirit and mental projection or whatever.

Many cosmologists, btw, expect that if there are any civilisations out there running space travel programs successfully, will be civilisation that have left any animalistic, biology-dependant staes of life behind, and will be - as we would see it - robot civilisations, by that defeating the monumental problems of time and ageing when travelling huge distances like between stars, and alos deleting the high vuolnerability of biologic life to chnages in the enviuronmentl variables. maybe higher biologic life forms simply are not robut eniough to enable them for long-lasting space travels that would be needed to run space travels and empires indeed.

I also want to remind you that plkanet Eaerth is located in those 10% of our galaxy that is the youngest 10% of this galaxy alltpgether - 90% of the space and in this galaxy is millions of years older than the 10% we are embedded in. That means that we must expect most intelligent life out there to be eons older than we are, and thus being of higher developement levels and knowldge and ability, than we are. the difference probably is such that not only "their" abilities wopuld appear like magic to us - mor elieklöy is that we would not even be capable to recignise these higher intellegnes as what they are: higher intelligent life forms (like the ant does not realise the intellkictual superiority of man).

If somebody thinks we men from planet Terra could storm into space and make our way into this galaxy's history with flying banners and sounding fanfares, then this is most probably not matching reality. we more likely compare to this galaxy's junior class in kindergarten, and maybe we have been put under quarantine because we promise to annoy the adults with our noise and trouble-making.

07-09-10, 01:26 PM	#27
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,637 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I think we will have deleted ourselves long before the term "space colony" and "stellar empire" could start to make sense for us. "Stellar sailors" we want to see ourselves as? Right now we are not more than a kid on the beach, throwing little stones at the waves, and running away when they roll up the beach, frightened. And before entropy - if it turns out to bbe true - ever could make a difference for mankind's ongoing existence in this universe, many billion more years must go by. To make entropy an argument why we should embark on conquering space, is a bit far fetched, for my taste. the truth is much more profane, I fear: we have depleted out ressources in reach of us long before we could even be dreaming of colonizing otger pkanets to a degree that it would a difference for the evolutionary path of mankind. Our technological and high civilisation will fall, leaving future generations to live on the level of small tribes living by the ways of hunters and gatherers again. Actually, it might even be a good thing for life on Earth if we do not start to pump ressources from other stellar objects into the system of earth'S planetosphere. it would change balances between substances and chemical agtns to a degree beyond that level that would be possible if we only deal with what is available to us on this planet. And if we even cannot reach a consenus on how our current modern messing-ups of the biosphere and ecosphere is creating what effect for Earth, and if we even cannot reliably calculate the longterm consequences of our modern playing around with the elem,nts of the pplanetosphere we already hav ein reach right here on Earth - how much more unable must we be to reliably forsee how it could change Earth's fate if we start to bring even more for example carbon from extraterrestrial sources into the internal Earth-based cycle of chemical interaction. - Not that we are close to being able to industrially exploit ressources on the moon in large scale. Optimism is one thing. Fantasizing is a different one. and this talking of space colonization and stellar empires and industrial exploitation of foreign stellar objects, to me is currently just - nothing. We even cannot reliably opertae a simple space sation without running into problems time and again, a space station that is not even a space staion becasue it is still embedde din the upper layers of earth's atmopshere. That far out into space we reach with our "space travelling" ...! And it is very liekly, that even in a most optimal future setting, we wpuld not reach out into space purselves, but send robots and probe droids, or discover other forms of travelling, via mind and spirit and mental projection or whatever. Many cosmologists, btw, expect that if there are any civilisations out there running space travel programs successfully, will be civilisation that have left any animalistic, biology-dependant staes of life behind, and will be - as we would see it - robot civilisations, by that defeating the monumental problems of time and ageing when travelling huge distances like between stars, and alos deleting the high vuolnerability of biologic life to chnages in the enviuronmentl variables. maybe higher biologic life forms simply are not robut eniough to enable them for long-lasting space travels that would be needed to run space travels and empires indeed. I also want to remind you that plkanet Eaerth is located in those 10% of our galaxy that is the youngest 10% of this galaxy alltpgether - 90% of the space and in this galaxy is millions of years older than the 10% we are embedded in. That means that we must expect most intelligent life out there to be eons older than we are, and thus being of higher developement levels and knowldge and ability, than we are. the difference probably is such that not only "their" abilities wopuld appear like magic to us - mor elieklöy is that we would not even be capable to recignise these higher intellegnes as what they are: higher intelligent life forms (like the ant does not realise the intellkictual superiority of man). If somebody thinks we men from planet Terra could storm into space and make our way into this galaxy's history with flying banners and sounding fanfares, then this is most probably not matching reality. we more likely compare to this galaxy's junior class in kindergarten, and maybe we have been put under quarantine because we promise to annoy the adults with our noise and trouble-making. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.