Originally posted by mikesingh
Well, that's the whole idea! There is no other alternative than to colonize not only other planets in our Solar System, but other systems too. Other
planets may be terraformed to harbor life, but all this would take considerable time - probably a couple of thousand years from now.
But considering the pace of the destruction of our environment, this will need to be done sooner than later before it's too late!
Now the question is, was the Earth terraformed too in the distant past?
Cheers!
Right, but I'm pretty adamanant in the idea that we could have bases/production facilities on the moon (get some "fuel efficient" space vehicles
running from the moon), start our way to bring materials to mars to build some domes there. And get a mining facility going somewhere around the
asteroid belt... all within the next 50 years, should Those Preteens That Be stop playing (gi.joe) with themselves and start playing legos with
everyone. This is all considering we really are alone and our tech is supreme of the universe, and we have no help once gettin going. 50 years,
easily.
Even so, yes I'm also steadfast in the belief that we have thousands to hundreds of thousands of years of resources left/potentially on this planet.
Of course, we gotta get off black gold cuz it really doesn't matter if we have resources or not if our planet is inhospitable to us. (sigh money)
Yes, terraforming planets is what we need to start doing, but that doesn't mean we cant make domes on them while the world around the domes
transforms into something we can flourish on.
I really haven't looked hard into terraforming, but are there any clues as to a terraformed planet? Like how a farm gets tilled and has neat rows of
soil from combining, etc? I'll look into it more (any pointers?), but really - artificial living quarters are achievable now, not in thousands of
years.
*i don't mean to try to make your ideas look as understatements, Mike. I mean, I've been around reading a lot of your ideas lately, and it would be
impossible for me atm, imo, to make you look a fool. I just put 2 and 2 together... and well 4 = space coloniztion is an easy (well, relatively
speaking) thing to do for us now, and it's just a waste that we aint even preparing to do it. I really actually had faith in Bush once when he said
he was going to start looking at the moon (military bases or not)... of course, this faith was short-lived, I still thought, "wow, this is it
guys."
[edit on 10-5-2009 by shanerz]
