New Proposal for the Secret of Life

[AFK]

Then again, I do feel rather strongly that the "salvation by space colonization" arguement is bullshit.

Yes, it's bullshit, that's why no real student of the subject suggests that.  Not me, not Freeman Dyson, Bob Zubrin or anyone else.  They and I are optimists and don't piss puerile misanthropy under the banner of a goddess of chaos.  Sure, people do plenty of hideous stuff.  Einstein treated women like crap and raged against quantum theory.  But this is no reason to say humans shouldn't reproduce, but I realize you were NOT just sayin' that.

The idea behind space colonization is not to "evacuate Earth" or some tripe.  Africa wasn't evacuated when humans spread over the rest of the Earth.  However, humans and our descendant species might be living in places other than a vulnerable blue speck in the far future.

Just think about the first unicellular organisms that all life on this planet descended from moving out of primordial tidal pools, if that helps any.

So, then, what is the real aim/purpose of space colonization?

Because, to me, and I admit I could be totally misguided, it's all about "because we might be able to"  (notice I didn't say, "because we can", NASA's track record isn't good enough to warrant that meme)

[P3nT4gR4m]

Then again, I do feel rather strongly that the "salvation by space colonization" arguement is bullshit.

Yes, it's bullshit, that's why no real student of the subject suggests that.  Not me, not Freeman Dyson, Bob Zubrin or anyone else.  They and I are optimists and don't piss puerile misanthropy under the banner of a goddess of chaos.  Sure, people do plenty of hideous stuff.  Einstein treated women like crap and raged against quantum theory.  But this is no reason to say humans shouldn't reproduce, but I realize you were NOT just sayin' that.

The idea behind space colonization is not to "evacuate Earth" or some tripe.  Africa wasn't evacuated when humans spread over the rest of the Earth.  However, humans and our descendant species might be living in places other than a vulnerable blue speck in the far future.

Just think about the first unicellular organisms that all life on this planet descended from moving out of primordial tidal pools, if that helps any.

So, then, what is the real aim/purpose of space colonization?

Because, to me, and I admit I could be totally misguided, it's all about "because we might be able to"  (notice I didn't say, "because we can", NASA's track record isn't good enough to warrant that meme)

It's the viral will of the dna molecule to spread everywhere. Humanity is merely one, semi successful, conscious wing of that movement. The insects will prolly employ their usual sneak tactic and hide in some food or something and we'll take a bunch of animals and plants with us as part of the biosphere. DNA will not stop until it covers and fills every square millimeter of the universe or it gets wiped out.

[LMNO]

Well, if that's true, then that's the flow of nature, and it would be wrong to fight against it, according to some.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I don't have any problem with it. In fact I'd like to see the end result.

[LHX]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

[P3nT4gR4m]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

I was kinda picturing a huge big globulent mass of biology throbbing and pulsating across the whole of infinity but, yeah, that'd be cool too.

[AFK]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

I was kinda picturing a huge big globulent mass of biology throbbing and pulsating across the whole of infinity but, yeah, that'd be cool too.

That would make Akira quite the prophetic movie then wouldn't it?

[P3nT4gR4m]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

I was kinda picturing a huge big globulent mass of biology throbbing and pulsating across the whole of infinity but, yeah, that'd be cool too.

That would make Akira quite the prophetic movie then wouldn't it?

Bang on! Exactly like the akira blob but infinite.

[LHX]

I was kinda picturing a huge big globulent mass of biology throbbing and pulsating across the whole of infinity but, yeah, that'd be cool too.

you might be right

but even a globule mass could have things living in it


just dont fight the glob




OH MY GLOB!!!

may glob have mercy on you


o no i have gotten carried away

[B_M_W]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

Wouldn't it be better to not waste time and do that now then?

[LHX]

end result:

success after learning responsibility and respect




(just a hunch)

Wouldn't it be better to not waste time and do that now then?

emphatically yes

with emphasis

[emphasis]yes[/emphasis]

[AFK]

bump.

Good stuff in this thread. 

[Reginald Ret]

I was kinda picturing a huge big globulent mass of biology throbbing and pulsating across the whole of infinity but, yeah, that'd be cool too.

what the fuck does globulent mean? googling it gives a site where its called a made-up word and this thread.

anyway something covering the whole of infinity can't resemble a globule.


I'll decide wether i want humanity to leave this planet when i decide wether i want humanity to survive, this may take a while.

[Wind rider]

Chances are the first colonies will be manufacturing, but moving enough material out of the Earth's atmosphere would cost too much fuel, there was research into using frozen water on the moon's poles and seperating the oxygen and hydrogen, but it's been a few years since I heard about that.

[Kai]

This was from back when I wasn't such a pussy.