To me, it feels like a further step in advancing human civilization. Disperse the population a bit and keep growing as a species. That said, I’m no expert and if you have literature to recommend please do!
To me, it feels like a further step in advancing human civilization. Disperse the population a bit and keep growing as a species. That said, I’m no expert and if you have literature to recommend please do!
This is a salient point, but obviously the answer lies in the nuance.
If there were some kind of mars-race and the US and China invest trillions in being the first to put a man on Mars, that seems like it would be a huge waste of resources given that those trillions of dollars would be better spent on rolling out renewables and de-carbonising industries.
On the other hand, methodical, strategic, considered advances into space are appropriate.
Space exploration needs to be balanced against our other objectives.
The US is currently spending billions on an illegal war with Iran. It is hard to say with a straight face that we don’t have enough money for space exploration and social programs when we spend our money on that.
It’d be surprising if we haven’t either ruined ourselves or achieved an actual end of history by 2300. So, that.
The savings from completely ignoring space aren’t what people think, though.
I think the war happens in 2112 actually so a little sooner
Hey, Putin could decide to end it all next year, for all we know. Or maybe AI arrives in 2040 and is already well on it’s way to total paperclip conversion of Earth by 2112.
On the other hand, if everything goes pretty straightforwardly some of the same people will be around in 2112, and some but not all of the same geopolitical and social divisions, as well. That stuff settles out over decades, and there’s only 9 decades to 2112.