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Muesky6969 t1_j2nx3ti wrote

Reply to comment by matthewgdick in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

So I am probably going to be down voted to Hades but all the time, money and research spent on interstellar travel is ridiculous. How about we take those resources and fix the mess we have made of the one planet we know for sure is inhabitable for humans and cure the diseases that plague humanity, first?

Then once that is done we focus on space travel. With a healthy world population and thriving planet, who knows what advances in science, medicine and technology we could make. This all seems, as my grandmother used to say, “Putting the cart before the horse.”

Understand I am just tired of seeing wonderful human beings living in poverty, homelessness and with diseases, while we kill our beautiful planet for greed.

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Mr_BamDeano t1_j2o0hdl wrote

This is a washed argument. There are enough resources and brain power on this planet to work both in parallel.

The sad part is, colonizing other planets (interstellar is a toss up) is very likely a simpler feat than fixing the entire human condition on this planet.

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UniversalMomentum t1_j2p3rz1 wrote

We will have unlimited robotic labor by the time we are doing stuff like this so there is no need to worry about those issues. You will have so much cheap production that everything will be dirt cheap and people will be bored enough to try crazy space exploration ideas.

Humans might tear themselves apart, but you won't really have production and resource problems AND a lot of these ideas don't compete against domestic improvement anyway so you will be doing both constantly like now.. just at a much faster rate.

Plus there are few single inventions that would benefit humans more than the ability to transfer a human mind into a machine because that opens up all kinds of new doors so you would want to do that even if you didn't care about space travel and you want the robots to automate your production as much as possible.. so you're already building everything you need for space travel for domestic uses anyway.. there is no real loss there just more reasons to do the same thing.

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Wargasm69 t1_j2p8wu1 wrote

A healthy world would imply culling 99% of the human population. From 8 billion to 80 million. Then we can start over. Why cure diseases when we should let nature run its course? Diseases are nature’s way of cleansing genetic defects, so why are we going against it? Why do we even need so many people on the planet?

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Yesterday_Is_Now t1_j2r2amw wrote

>With a healthy world population and thriving planet, who knows what advances in science, medicine and technology we could make.

Er, but R&D for space exploration leads to advances in science, medicine and technology that would help to heal the Earth and its residents as you aspire. So it would be best for both efforts to proceed in tandem.

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