Mankind needs too much of an infrastructure to colonize anywhere else. How would Man make the meds, the glues, the fabrics, the parts for repair, the computers, all the sundry stuff necessary for man to survive.
After 100 years stuff will start to wear out.
Psychologically, how would Man handle it? Surrounded by nothing but machinery and rocks, no contact with the "nature" from which we have sprung.
Then there's the radiation, and the particles poking holes in everything. The atmosphere could become polluted. A few gamma rays through a couple of computers and the control is gone. One mistake and it's over.
Nuclear subs have had accidents, and that's on good old Terra Softa. With a limited mission, and 6 months of supplies.
The ability of fools to make foolproof devices is limited. We'd be far, far better off keeping the Earth habitable.
I think.
Arf (Computers and nanotechnology, Bow. I know. Pie in the sky.)
Space/Science » in reply to re: Been there done that
4 billion years of evolution to fit Earth. This IS Man's colony.
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- O'Neill had the right idea.
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- In '61 Kennedy said we'd get there in 9 years.