Personally I think we haven’t leant to look after what we’ve got here, cos we still don't seem to be leaning much... So what are the chances for the rest of universe?
For those who may agree with Steven Hawins... what's the point!
2006-12-15 19:28:01 · 15 answers · asked by TLC 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually stevey boy did suggest that we have about 100 years to get off the planet before we destroy it and our selves in the process - My question is: What's the point!
2006-12-15 21:03:32 · update #1
It's not surprising that man lacks the ability to find answers to questions, when he lacks the ability to understand the question!
The question was “DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD”. That is, assuming that we can.
So I am not asking if we can, because that is a different question. I have only asked one question. I don’t know if I can make it any clearer. Maybe I’m wasting my time trying to explain to the inept!
The rest of the universe is to imply anything outside our own atmosphere.
I think it’s pretty obvious we have to start somewhere. But it’s always best to start at the beginning, and the beginning is here at home where we live in chaos. Unlike the rest of the cosmos which seems to live in harmony.
2006-12-16 21:15:44 · update #2
I think the cancerous effects of humanity would infect and destroy all the other planets just like it did to earth.
2006-12-15 19:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by .. 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Wow.. dude. Let me tell you a little something about the rest of the universe.
It's f***in huge.
It's so big that even if we invent some freaky super-lightspeed device, we cannot hope to ever colonize all of it before it either runs out of energy states to decay to or colapse in on itself.
But colonization should totally happen, but it won't happen, and shouldn't, until we pass a certian threshold. We'll either destroy ourselves, set ourselves back a few thousand years, or pass the test and move on.
And good LORD. Shut the hell up about terrorists already. How freakin paranoid can you be? It's a Science conversation and the only thing you can talk about is Terrorists. Go spew drivel in the political Q&A, they got plenty of that, you'll be right at home. YOU stay here and look for an Arab guy hiding in a pile of fecies in a cave somewhere, I'm gonna go freakin evolve with the rest of humanity.
Also, Cancer is my bet for the key to the next stage of evolution. Similar is Man's cancerous relationship with Earth, outwardly we look like nothing but a gooey mass of cells gone completely out of control, but this mutation is part of the natural course and perhaps even the very purpouse of that course.
2006-12-15 19:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by socialdeevolution 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do me a favour - the rest of the universe???? I hardly think Stephen Hawking (as his name is correctly spelt) has suggested that - stupid statements are not generally what he's know for.
I take it you mean nearby planets such as Mars (in cosmic terms, so close it's virtually sitting on our lap). Well, why on earth not? Our planet may be unable to sustain us in the future, so obviously we are going to colonise.
You don't seem to think very highly of your fellow man - but the fact remains that, for all our stupidity in the past, we are beginning to try and change things. Surely only a highly intelligent and civilised species could even contemplate doing that.
I suppose you think that the universe, having gone to all the trouble of allowing concious reasoning to evolve, would be happy to see it drop dead again? Obviously, we're going to try and ensure our survival - and if that means colonising, then that's what we'll do.
Yes, but "Stevey boy" didn't imply we could colonise the universe - mainly because he knows that that would be ludicrous given the enormous scale of it. He has suggested moving to nearby planets - rather different from what you've asked.
And the point is survival of our species - the reason any of us are here at all.
2006-12-15 20:06:44 · answer #3 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm skeptical about whether it would ever work in any acceptable way. If you think about how many species there are on earth that we depend on. Includes all the microbes in millions of types that make the soil good to grow things in, even in remote and arid places. I doubt we could make a sustainable habitat on a currently sterile planet without seeding it with many Noah's Arks of necessary species and then leaving it get to a good equilibrium for millions of years.
If we go to a planet on which life is already present in some form I'd be surprised if we would be compatible with it. It's likely to have different biochemistry.
Wherever we go we will need free oxygen, food and fuel for an indefinite period, or we will have to get on back here when it runs out.
2006-12-16 00:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by philjtoh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the general rule for any sentient species that wants to survive. Any such species that fails to achieve a viable breeding population off their home-world will eventually become extinct. Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species. Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.
2006-12-16 14:53:16 · answer #5 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As it is we are turning earth into a graveyard, killing everyother species of flora fauna and everything in between, we are even killing our own kind..
I have always wondered why nations spend billions of dollars trying to find if there is life elsewhere in the universe while there are millions of lives being lost in our planet.. should nt this money be used to make the lives better right here, in our home , where we live ?
2006-12-15 19:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by Sweety 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We aren't at that point yet - give us some time to develop. Right now we don't have any need to colonize another planet. Granted, that time will come soon, but it's a little early to say that we don't possess the abilty to do so - perhaps by the time colonization is needed, we'll have been able to realize our errors and correct for them.
2006-12-15 19:51:27 · answer #7 · answered by Bael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can stay here on Earth then while Spock, Captain Kirk, and me are out there exploring the universe and beyond. I think aliens dropped us off here a few hundred thousnad years ago anyways.
2006-12-15 19:41:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Despite all the fiction out there, moving the human race to other planets is impossible.
2006-12-16 00:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So we are buggering up the planet God gave us and you want we should go fcuk up the rest of the universe. Stay where you are Gaia will get you
2006-12-15 21:03:27 · answer #10 · answered by Espacer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋