Daniel, going to space for the sake of curiosity isn't indeed the same thing as going to space to get away from Earth. There is a political divide, here!
For instance, while a few find the terraforming idea interesting in Europe, a huge majority simply rejects the idea.
I'm afraid our civilization will have to one day terraform a world, but it will have to be our own, the Earth.
It's also helpful to look at history: the settlers who left Europe for the Americas were escaping from religious persecutions in Europe.
But now, americans from the US are far more religious than the Europeans who in the mean time had known the French revolution.
If there is a human behavior going against the interest of our own civilization on Earth, we have to accept changing our habits ourselves instead of re-creating elsewhere what we escaped from.
We change all the time, that's our cultural evolution. It goes far faster than our biological evolution. We change but we haven't yet build a city underneath the ocean nor on the highest mountains or the remotest deserts. There is still plenty of room for mankind on our own planet.
Other planets need to be visited (we need serious improvements in the spacesuit technology), explored but settlements, if ever, much later...When humans will become unrecognizable to us.
Raoul
Space/Science » in reply to I'm sure you're with me on this
re: The politacal divide
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- Reasons
- An anti-imperialist view
- Our purpose to expand into space is to propogate and protect Gaia
- Very interesting thoughts. Thanks
- I'm sure you're with me on this
- Not so much "manifest destiny" as biological imperative
- You really do suprise me
- Going To Mars Does Not Require Any More Than Going To The Moon
- You make a good point...
- You really do suprise me