This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives the greatest number of votes each week will win a Toshiba Portégé R400 laptop.
Brilliant Idea, and I want a new laptop :-)
So: "Will the human race ever populate another planet?"
Here is what I have to say (after you read, head over there and plz vote for me ;-) or write your own piece):
Will we live for that?
With all what is going around us like wars, pollution, global warning, mysterious diseases, etc... Unfortunately, I don't think the world will make it to that day.
It is true that mankind is growing fast, so is technology and since is developing in light speed, however, with all this development comes the greedy of mankind. Greed for power and money. With all the technology we have now, mankind uses it more and more to destroy his kind rapidly and immense numbers.
I'm not a historian, but I can claim that people killed by wars, diseases and man-caused disasters (including many so called "natural") in the last few centuries is x-multiple of times the number of men killed throughout the history in the previous period.
On the other hand, there was an exponential growth of human population in 1987 where that year 87.01 million more people were added to the Earth. Since then, the population has declined on average by 3 million less people added per year. This means that we will peak in population reaching zero population growth in 2020 with 6.64 billion people.
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The United Nation demographers did their report update of world population numbers and projected average population which reached zero population growth in 2038 @ 7.47 billion. This means that by then the growth will be equal to the decline, which in other words means mankind population is going down faster and faster each year.
As a result of all this, lets think of sustainability of soil energy, sustainability of fisheries energy, fresh water limits, literacy rates, starvation and its related diseases, HIV infection rates and similar new diseases, etc... Now, if we consider "Energy and Water" only, aren't these major reasons of wars in present times? Think how it will be more devastating in the few coming decades only. Immeasurable, I think. So, "will mankind live to see new sun from other planet (or even our sun)?" I don't think so!
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong. But from what we live through day by day, such dreams makes one feel that it will remain dreams.
Now, I want the laptop:
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Thanks buddy :-D
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It will be beautiful to allow the neo-cons, the nazis, Israel, muslim fundamentalists and drug dealers to go live in another planet. Life on Earth will then by magnificant.
Good Idea, Batir :-)
Thx Kimmy for the vote ;-)
It do look fesible right now.
but I can fore see a time when our present polictical cooperation in space gaves way to compitition for domance . One of the key motive to start human migration to orbit will space tourisms. . There is big money to be made in that aera od spaces exploration , bbecause the demand is there,
Next motive wil depend on if the world frist fussion reactive come on line in 10 to 12 years time. if so , then the demand for helium 3 would increase.
Only place wher I know you get get in grester quanity that on earth is the moon.
beyond that I beleivve that we will have expirence some kind of Space Revolution in Technology for space flight form the surface to orbitat some point in tne near future (30 years or so)
if fussion power generator become fesible to apply in -orbit space cratf , will yes we could reach Mars in weeks rather that years or month
other with the present ststus quoto , anit nothing hapening
I mean to say it dont look fesible right now; in my opening sentence
sorry about that.