It seems many responses to Professor Hawkings (and others) questions about how our species will survive indicate our only hope is to relocate to Mars or beyond? Why resort to this logistical nightmare? Given the challenges faced by getting cooperation on this planet, what makes you think we could pull off establishing a sustainable presence on another?
2006-07-09 07:53:40 · 10 answers · asked by Bamos 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Save the planet from what? Where's it going? Is someone going to steal it?
Remember our ancestors put up with as much or more problems that we do.
They didn't have indoor plumbing or electric heat, lights or stoves. They didn't have gas stoves either. they took baths in small round tubs and had to go outside to the bathoroom.
I love my electric blanket in the winter. They didn't have those either.
They never had pre-packaged food and had to hunt for meat. Tehy had to raise most everything they ate. There were no refridgerators or freezers. They had to cut and split their own wood, and didn't have cars or school busses to take children to school. they would hardly ever get outside their own town as it took so long. They rode horses and not just for pleasure. But because it was the only way to get around. And in the winter months that would have been cold indeed. The horse and buggy didn't protect you from cold or snow.
They did clothes and dishes by hand. There were no such things as washing machines or sewing machines. No dishwashers either.
And you think we have it bad now? People have survived worse. I think if they survived so can we.
2006-07-09 08:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by helpme1 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because most people believe that there is nothing that we can do to fix the harm that we have caused to the environment. We need to be better managers of our resources. I am currently living in the Southwest (Oklahoma) I am a Yankee where we are more concerned with having the water that we use go to the right water sheds in the North. Down here, the towns are the ones making money on selling water, not conserving it. We have been pumping water from one lake into another for some 18 months now and people think this is normal and still waste water.
2006-07-09 08:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by andy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why go to other planets and take all our problems there we'll just pollute it start wars kill all the natives enslave whoever is left and
take everything from them just like on good old Earth.
There is already talk about terraforming Mars why go there just to turn into here. One quarter will end up an amusement park one quarter will be a casino owned by Trump one quarter will be military the other quarter a parking lot after all the juice is sucked out of course.
2006-07-09 08:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by pete7992000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What defines a logistical nightmare that is so insurmountable as to be wholly unworthy of study and effort? Should we stop studying space travel because we haven't figured it out yet? Should we poison our hope for humanity with nihilist beliefs? Is it so loathsome that while some people care about football, others equal rights, others morality, etc. some people care about space travel and try to make it happen?
Hawkings seems to me to have good reasoning: let's diversify. Or in other words, "Let's not put all our eggs in one basket."
Personally, I think it'd do us worlds of good to find in ourselves ways of exploring that which we think is impossible, alien and a dream. That goes for wherever we are, home or in space.
P.S. I'd rather see nations covet space colonies than nukes.
2006-07-09 08:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by Gremlin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will never happen in our lifetime . Until the people and the government and the big corporations learn how to respect planet earth , what makes anybody think they could survive on another planet with all the obstacles they have to endure . Learning to respect this planet and what it has to offer is challenge enough , why go off and desecrate another planet , and another and another .
2006-07-09 08:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by vpsinbad50 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 06:57:11 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people...here ??? I doubt it.
A logistic nightmare? You betcha. I'll go even further, saying that for the next hundred years, only a few can flee....to...where??
2006-07-09 08:00:33 · answer #7 · answered by Puzzleman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe this because it's fun & it's a whole new planet to contaminate and destroy!!
2006-07-09 07:58:53 · answer #8 · answered by kg1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who are 'most people'? Be careful not to over-generalize.
2006-07-09 08:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by maynerdswife 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there bonkers
2006-07-09 07:54:56 · answer #10 · answered by †♫♫♫♥☼♥♫♫♫† 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋