Will humans ever prosper beyond our small rock?

Question

Do you think that we can make it?
Before a metor impact, cosmic rays, ozone layer, floods, earthquakes etc.. destroys all life.
Even if we found another planet to colonise, we are soooo far off having the technology to get there.

Answer 1

ultimately yes....... we have to... our survival as a species depends on this happening... gladly i think we occupy a sufficiently 'wide time - spectrum in order to cement this .'

Answer 2

Propser and make it? It is more that we will be forced to leave the planet (assuming that future generations will still want to live). Children of space will lose the ability to return to the planet regardless of the condition being raised in a different environment and different gravity.

Greed will cause us to do all sorts of damage to one an another and the planets/space. We are a species that can never get enough. Greed and jealousy turn us into something closer to barbarians rather than civilians.

I don't know what you are envisioning but it will likely be a small expedition that starts the process of populating another planet, asteroid or space body. Those left of the planet will likely die off or be killed off.

Any of these disasters though are unlikely to kill everyone and all at the same time. We'll be long dead before any of it ever happens.

Answer 3

Haaaaaaaa Haaaaaaaa Haaaaaaa.

The human race is doomed to die because they are unable to live peacefully with each other and because they do not respect the planet on which we all live.

If we were more able to use our intelligence universally and become united in surviving as a race then perhaps a workable idea may surface, or, we may not even have to consider moving location.

As it is man just likes killing each other off any way so I don't really want to join the human race on another planet, or even be involved in the destruction of another one.

Besides I think we will be hard pushed to find another beautiful planet like the one we already have.

Pity man still wants to spend money on war instead of saving the planet. Irriots eh!

Answer 4

I think that "we" will colonize either the moon or Mars, perhaps before or during the final phases of OUR DESTRUCTION OF THIS PLANET... (p.s. rest assured will only end up destroying everything else in our path UNLESS WE CHANGE).
A better question though might be this: Will "we" still be {human}? Or will we create a self-perpetuated evolution since we have adapted to live here and NOT on the moon, Mars, etc?

Answer 5

We have to, because in approx 5 billion years from now the sun is going to expand into a red giant and destroy all life on Earth. Assuming that the human race is still around then I am sure we will have mastered interstellar travel. Whether we survive until then, well .....................

Answer 6

I could never understand if the Americans got too the moon how come no McDonald's was ever built there . We will get into deep space its just a question of time .

Answer 7

seriously, if you're not an MIT post graduate student then dont think of questions like this one. you and i are so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things that our combined opinions dont matter much. let's leave this question to the experts of 2050 and beyond coz theirs are the problems of the future. meantime, have a break and drink a can of coke. peace man

Answer 8

Not with current technology they own up to knowing about.
I think there are already many humans working along side, and some times being exploited by aliens, and other beings. Yet we are virtually unaware of their existence. They have been here for thousands of years.

Answer 9

Yes I think we will colonise other planets but probably not in my lifetime.

Answer 10

The reason or the sense of anything is not given to us to know. The universe is too vast and the ways of life too complex for us to know from whence it came and whence it goes. We only know what is set before us. What task is upon our very small plate. We never know if we’re too early or too late; or even if we are just in time. So we journey on blindly, reckoning not the climb. Thinking we know the way and what will come. Then out of nowhere it does come. We are left wondering what happened. This is the will of God in all of its sublime, though capricious, circumstance. The flutter of a butterfly’s wing on the winds of time. We need only know, that in the vastness of time and space, we are, after all, but a mote, moving through a speck of time. The universe churned long before us and will do so, long after. We are special only to those who know us and only for a brief time. Thereafter, it really doesn’t matter. We are gone and too soon forgotten, while life goes on.

Kings and heroes we know of from long ago, but what of the farmer who grew his food or the tailor that made his clothes. Can you name them? Yet, they lived when he did and their name did not come down through time. Few ever do. One in a million, it is said, is ever remembered to future time. What of prehistory, where no names are known? That was just five thousand years ago. Man stretches back to a million or so. What names or great deeds are now remembered from then? So you see, in time, all is forgotten and life goes on.

Man has, since history began, those five thousand years ago, tried to immortalize himself to future time. The Egyptians and others built pyramids and stone temples from lavish to simple to enshrine their name. Even today, we place granite or marble where we lay, to remind others of our name and time, but even stone wears away. It is hapless and hopeless to attempt to keep our name alive, not even sending it through history upon an another, because generations end. Though they may not. It just depends. However, from whence it was got is soon forgot . Think only of having your deeds recorded in history, where they will live to a ripe old age. Although the story is soon forgotten, as is your name. Today, we cherish our heritage and name, but in time, both will be forgotten - as life goes on.

The only thing that may survive is our specie; then by a name other than Latin. In some other place with a little different patent. For whence ere we go, we change. We are not those of ancient Africa born, but a different range of man, as may be clearly seen by the few remnants that remain of elder man. No doubt, if we are here, when we must flee this planet, we will have changed and shortly, as time goes, after we leave, we will change again. If ever we remain the same, having lost the capacity for change, we will perish, become extinct. Then time will have forgotten man. It will be up to others, of a different specie, to give our distinct bones names, if any of them remain within the sand . Perhaps, some remnant of our deeds will go on for others to puzzle over, but not our name. That is for kings and others of note, if any record of them remain. All else is forgotten and life goes on.