I'll skip over the political ax you tried to grind in most of your post (ER disposed of it handily), and address your concern that people wouldn't want to take a one-way trip to another star system. That doesn't match human history (and prehistory). Up until the era of the great sailing ships, nobody ever returned home from a voyage to set up a colony in a new land. They said goodbye permanently to friends and family, and if they'd returned, they'd have been treated as ghosts or demons.
Maybe it's more accurate to say that humans have always sorted themselves into adventurers and stay-at-homes. The homebodies have always outnumbered the adventurers, so perhaps you're right on a statistical basis. But that hardly means that when it becomes possible to voyage to another star, nobody will want to go. We' have to have changed out of all recognition, and lost all spirit. In that case we'd be on the slide to oblivion anyway, and we'd no longer matter in the grand scheme of things.
Space/Science » in reply to re: I was never too worried about it
colonization's always been a one-way trip
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- Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets
- There's no PROOF for their claim. (n/t)
- Translation: Very good news for SETI weenies.
- I was never too worried about it
- How about admitting: "We don't know"...and search from there
- re: I was never too worried about it
- colonization's always been a one-way trip
- It's obvious you don't believe space aliens will be Democrats. (n/t)
- "Intelligence"
- Fermi Shmermi
- It is just nice...
- I was never too worried about it