Re: ...Nasa/Griffin LYING about Public Support for Moon/Mars Missions!

On 31 Oct 2006 05:55:24 +0100, in a place far, far away, Jim Davis
<jimdavis2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg wrote:

I think that either space colonization is inevitable, or the
extinction of humankind is inevitable. That, of course, makes
no prediction about the timeframe for either event.

But I find it highly unlikely that we will continue on this
planet indefinitely without either extinguishing ourselves, or
populating more of the universe. It will almost certainly be
one or the other, eventually.

You're essentially claiming (as most space colonization enthusiasts
do) that space colonization improves the long term survival prospects
of the human race. It *may* work out that way but that's completely
unknowable at this juncture.

I'd say that if it doesn't, it will be because we are no longer human,
so almost by definition, it does. Humans eventually fill ecological
niches. Space is a huge one.
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