There are people on this board who still seriously believe humanity will ever colonize space

>there are still people in this kingdom who think we can sail across that giant sea and create new kingdoms?!?!?! They are dumb! The ocean gods (things I don't understand) make that impossible!

>There are still people who think one of those stupid flying contraptions will ever fly across the ocean? How foolish. Everyone can see that it is impossible!!! It's heavier than air! It will never fly! Flight is unnatural. We should stay on the ground because new things and possibilities make me scared.

>there are still people on this planet that thinkpeople can leave the atmosphere! Preposterous! Nothing can leave the atmosphere and survive! We should just stay in the atmosphere and be happy. Lets not even try guys.

but user, we now know that the moon landing, much like airplanes, seas and mountains, were just propaganda. Some people on this board will never wise up...

Dont be stupid like OP. Just because our current technology and science doesn't enable something doesn't mean that we have reached the end of possible development. That thinking is primitive and foolish. Saying anything is impossible in this day in age takes a particularly dense shortsightedness.

We will always go further and faster. Fuck off with your regressive defeatism OP. You will never reach other planets or other stars because you will never leave moms basement.

You seem very giddy about stuff you will never experience; if the technology for such advancements even becomes possible. Escapist fantasies maybe?

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OP is right, there is nothing out there. We'd just be wasting our time and resources. It's just not worth it. We need to put a stop to those reckless and provocative space programs and come around to the earthly table. Even looking at stars is useless, there's nothing see but dumb rocks floating around. All telescopes should be decommissioned. We ned to grow up and focus on earthly affairs where shit is actually happening, not that big dumb empty space.

>if

>Nothing out there

Oh well then you won't mind if I harvest the asteroid belt then.

Cool thanks I'll just claim it all since you have no interest

Most of the human race already has colonized your mom's 'space'.

>°•●¤▪°~
>get the anal probe

>mine the asteroid belt

DOES NO ONE REALIZE HOW MUCH SHIT CAN BE BUILT WITH THAT MUCH SHIT FLOATING AROUND REEEEEE

Did it work?

lel!

Why wouldn't humanity colonize space?

>How would those future humans cover the distances between stars?
There is plenty of space around the star we currently orbit.

Besides that, colony ships could conceivably be built to be sent on one way trips to other stars. The infeasibility of FTL is irrelevant from the point of view of a traveller with no intent to return home because as one approaches relativistic velocities, space and time contract. The hurdle is a space ship with the energy to reach those velocities. These ships would probably be nuclear powered.

Current technology more than enables it. It's a lack of short term financial incentive for Earth based businesses and a lack of political will to fund it publicly that has so far prevented it from happening. This will change as space infrastructure and LEO space industry develops or the population gains more interest in space.

It seems like a nightmare to mine though.

*blocks your path*

*teleports behind you*

This. We couldn't even come up with a method to prevent this from happening. We should in now way be allowed to spread our filth throughout the galaxy.

how?

That article is so fucking bad, and just plain intellectually dishonest, its like a drunk man's personal opinion.

I encourage everyone to read how insane this is. It's like 12 introductions in a row. I know it's an """ excerpt""" but come on.

Well it really depends on what forms of energy we eventually wind up using. If (a big if) we master fusion it wouldn't be impossible to go ten percent the speed of light. This would allow us to reach many planets near in relatively short periods of time. Now most likely these expeditions will either involve just robots or robots and human embryos. Unless of course there are large advances in medical technology that allow us to either put people on ice or just preserve their lives for extended periods of time.

Now the question is. Will there be any point to doing this and what are the consequences and advantages.

Humanity was happier back then. Proof that progress is harmful.

Untrue look at thorium and LIFT

There's also a laughably huge amount of uranium left.

>any of this compares to the distances in space

Crossing a mountain ~a few days
Columbus sailing across the Atlantic ~3 months
Plane flight over the Atlantic ~a few hours
Journey to the moon ~a week
Journey to Mars ~6 months, with no chance of ever coming home.

The ungabungas crossed the mountain to find more fertile land or better game
Columbus sailed across the Atlantic to find new trade routes
Planes were invented for military use and civilian travel
NASA went to the moon to stick it to the Soviets in the Cold War
Why the fuck would we ever go to Mars?

Real life is not Star Wars, kids. There are far more pressing issues on Earth than fulfilling science fiction fantasies.

>implying the trip to the New World wasn't like three months at the beginning
>implying a world filled with smart phones isn't hungry for niobium and shit, which is much, much more common in asteroids

Giant ass rocks floating in all directions sounds hazardous.

>There are far more pressing issues on Earth than fulfilling science fiction fantasies.
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>colonize space (im guessing just anything other than the earth or the moon)
Possible
>reaching other stars
Yeah no

Well hypothetically, if we were able to synthesize food and water plus develop the Bokanovsky Process, we could easily send out a one-way ship to distant stars. Only problem is that if we can synthesize food and water, whats the real point of galactic colonialisation? I cant wait for future generations to discover this thread and read the thoughts of their ancestors. Hello young-ins!

The odds of getting hit going through an asteroid field are actually on the order of like 1/100,000.

They look crowded, but that's because there's no atmosphere to limit the depth of what you see in a photograph. Real asteroid fields are incredibly dispersed.

That isn't really the question at all. In fact I would say that no one whom would ever be involved in such an enterprise seriously would ever be influenced by such a stupid and daft question.

> this

We send stuff through the Belt constantly without an impact. That shit is really widely dispersed.

second this

>all these anons who think civilization won't collapse before we get the chance to colonize even Mars

There are already people living permanently aboard the International Space Station, ergo humanity has already colonized space.

>this is the mindset that killed the chinks

No one has properly addressed stellar radiation and cancer.

Basically, we will literally cure cancer before we colonise space. So do I think that's possible? Yes, but it's a way off.

>I'm retarded and cannot visualize humanity in any state but continuous technological and demographic expansion even though the universe only offers very limited possibilities for this.

>people actually think colonizing planets and spreading humans around like locusts is a good thing

We might not colonize outer space, but the robots that surpass us will.

[citation needed]

>being this naive

Grow up kid, if you can't fathom that there are possibilities we can't yet fully realize but we will in due time you're nothing but a dirty reactionaire.

This galaxy is our birthright. It's our responsibility as a sentient species to travel through space, explore new worlds, find exotic new species and fuck them. Failure to do so would be heresy of the highest caliber.

That's a retarded opinion piece, and doesn't even take into account Venus, a more likely candidate.