Are there anons here who don't think we will colonize space...

Sure thing, kid.

Other than
>Technology
>Economic incentive
>Knowledge
But other than those, we're pretty much good to go.

If the big fucking rocket SpaceX has planned ever gets going, shipping resources to space will be so cheap that space stations will pop into existence out of the vacuum. Space habitats would be right after. If.

Stopped reading at "humanity has discovered nearly all relevant science."

>Technology

We already have the tech for space colonization. We wouldn't need to discover anything new to science. It is all just simple engineering.

>Economic incentive

"proper motivation"

>Knowledge

See the first part of this post.

We have. It is all down to engineering now.

Who's 'we'?

>We have
You're a moron.

Commercial colonization will probably not happen in the near future. As in next 500 years or more. There's no purpose or reason to do so and I highly doubt anyone will be willing to leave Earth en masse just to live in some squalor dome. Sure the initial hype will be enormous but the disillusionment will be far more greater.

In the next few centuries a more sensible outcome seems to be that The Moon will probably get a legislative treatment similar to the one that Antarctica got and it will harbor international research stations with rotating crews similar to the ISS. After that we might get a kick out of resource hunt in space but that will probably be a long and arduous process that I'm not sure it will pay off.

Oh, here's the kid who believes in things like time travel, city hovercraft transportation, and credit limits. kek

>No known way for humans to make ourselves go fully extinct

>Make oxygen unbreathable
>contagious superbug
>launch all nukes
>doomsday device at earth's core
>destroy earth's magnetic field
>create blackhole
>splice human hunting predator
>increase parasite population x10000
>upload virus to internet making the internet of things go rogue and purge humanity
>etc...

Although, there is probably a method most are overlooking that the common man could use to reach space. on a whim. I'm willing to bet on it.