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2013763 No.2013763 [Reply] [Original]

So /sci/, tell me:

Does the future of human civilisation really lie in space exploration? Why/why not?

>> No.2013770

No.

The worthwhile shit is too far to get even with the speed of light

>> No.2013789

depends on the "future of human civilisation," the outcome of our progress as a whole. if we perish, then space exploration is futile, but if we wish to sustain ourselves, the answer is yes.

>> No.2013797

Should we bother sending humans up at all until we know what we're going to do, or just send cheaper, safer robots instead?

>> No.2013801

No, because faster than light travel is fiction.

>> No.2013803

Outside of a survival insurance policy, probably not.

>> No.2013804
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2013804

Yes. There is practically unlimited space and materials for us to use. It is the new frontier.

>> No.2013864

Bump

>> No.2013869

>>2013801
He thinks that FTL is required for space travel. We will alter our minds and bodies.

>> No.2013873

also space could be the new america

trying out new forms of government


and then maybe making an advancement equivalent to the united states

>> No.2013899

>>2013804
We will be able to have chickens that shit everything from nanobots to black holes before we get to the next galaxy.

>> No.2013960

Bump

>> No.2013965

>>2013873
AHAHAHAHA
No.

>> No.2013969

The future of space exploration lies in human civilization.

>> No.2013971

>>2013763
define "future"

>> No.2013985

>>2013969
That makes no sense, eleaborate plox.

>> No.2014272

>Does the future of human civilisation really lie in space exploration? Why/why not?
If the chance of a nuclear war is 1 in a thousand every year, then you bet your ass human civilization requires space colinizaiton. Even the exchange of 100 nukes between India and Pakistan would reduce crop yields across the planet, killing a billion and starting up countless brushfire wars across the world. If thousands of nukes are exchanged then kiss our species collective ass goodbye.

>> No.2014181

Bump

>> No.2014511

Bamp

>> No.2014517

Here's how I see it.
Earth has a limited amount of resources.
Resources can be recycled, but there is always some amount of waste, or limit to how many times the resource can be recycled.
Humans need certain resources to survive.
Other planets have resources.
Therefore, eventually, the survival of the human race will depend on space exploration.

>> No.2014619

Bump

>> No.2014640

Earth will become uninhabitable one way or another eventually. If we're lucky this will take a few billion years.

We have absolutely no reason to believe we're going to be that lucky, however.

Our future ends with Earth if we haven't left by then.

Our future still ends even if we leave Earth, but spreading out across the universe buys us a few hundred billion years before heat death ends everything.

>> No.2014650

>>2014640
Heat death is?

>> No.2014672

>>2014650

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2csQnE0jA

>> No.2014775

Bump

>> No.2014794

>>2014640 Our future still ends even if ...
Unless we can travel to another universe, or create one.

>> No.2014800

>>2014640
That's assuming we don't figure out how to reverse entropy or something. 100 billion years is a very fucking long time.

>> No.2014841

Heat death is fiction. It won't ever occur due to how elements work. It's just one of those childish ideas, like saying that there is a worm hole inside of a black hole. The universe won't ever cease to exist.

>> No.2014844

>>2013763
I believe it does, but I'm in a minority. The majority is so stuck in the loop of wanting to maintain their own nests that they can't see past next week, let alone hundreds of years from now. My attitude might have been different if I had offspring of my own, but I've never had a strong urge to do that.

>> No.2014856

>>2014841
it will happen, entropy always increases.

>> No.2014862

>>2014856

That's what you think, dark matter proves you wrong.

>> No.2014887

TOBERTS

>> No.2014889

>>2014862
>implying anyone knows what dark matter actually does

>> No.2014909

>>2014889
Reacts to normal matter via gravity but not via the nuclear forces or electromagnetism.

>> No.2014968

Bump