[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'I')t'll happen within two decades. There's no slowing it, no disputing it, and no other alternative.

We have too many people on one small planet, and are running short of energy, water, food, cheap personal transportation, desirable home sites, etc. The rapid, non-sustainable, over-consumption of limited resources by an unlimited human population is damaging the Earth and the rate of damage is increasing.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'W')e are marooned on spaceship earth.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'W')e are marooned on spaceship earth.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'W')e are marooned on spaceship earth.

[Lore]

In the next 50 years we're going to be too busy spending our remaining resources and global treasure on just trying to survive as a species. Many will wish at the end of that time that they were off this planet.

[MonteQuest]

Think of the two main obstacles:

No where to go.

No way of getting there, if we knew where to go.

[SeaGypsy]

Monte, you need advice from a newbie here called Kaiser Jeep. We don't need anywhere to go, we build perpetual antigravity machine centred space bases & live in them forever, sounds like fn don't it?

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'M')onte, you need advice from a newbie here called Kaiser Jeep. We don't need anywhere to go, we build perpetual antigravity machine centred space bases & live in them forever, sounds like fn don't it?

[MonteQuest]

I especially liked this one.

"Our species is no more marooned on earth than it was marooned in Africa."

I could write a book on why that isn't so.

[MonteQuest]

Here's a quote very apropos for peakoil.com:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e have not yet known a modern existence without an ever greater scale of fossil fuels, and it is their availability that has catalyzed our progress. This century, we will enter a new phase, untested by humanity. Dismissing the challenge this presents by looking beyond to a future in space is one of the best ways to ensure that such a future never comes to pass. All athletes know better than to take their eye off the ball.

[Tanada]

When a learned elder tells you something is possible, they are almost always right because they have seen it happen in their lifetimes. When a learned elder tells you something is impossible? It might be, but often they are speaking from their disappointments, not current science.

[Strummer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'G')etting out of Africa and spreading across the planet ensured our survival as a species. Getting off earth and spreading outward does likewise.

[MD]

Again, Homo Sapiens will not be the ones to colonize the rest of the solar system.

Homo Sapiens is a young and fleeting species that happens to be "blooming" at this very moment in time.

Will the bloom wilt, wither, and die?

Will it instead evolve into what comes next, be it mechanical, biological, or some combination thereof?

Could be either, who's to say for sure.

But Homo Sapiens as the primary life form of the heavens? Nah. Too fragile and too short lived.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', ' ')When a learned elder tells you something is impossible? It might be, but often they are speaking from their disappointments, not current science.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'B')ut Homo Sapiens as the primary life form of the heavens? Nah. Too fragile and too short lived.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'W')hen a learned elder tells you something is possible, they are almost always right because they have seen it happen in their lifetimes. When a learned elder tells you something is impossible? It might be, but often they are speaking from their disappointments, not current science.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')
Let me ask you a different kind of question,

which do you WANT to be true?

Do you WANT the doomer story to be true? Or are you pro space but just see all these opposing factors to it?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'P')ro space? Not against exploring space, but the money could be better spent educating people from kindergarten on about the laws of physics and the laws of ecology.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'B')ut Monte -- the 1960s had folks like you too, they all said "it can't be done, I could write a book with all the reasons it can't be done."