Maybe.. maybe not. I think space exploration is a bit more complex than what it may look like the way you describe things.. :P
While 'life' might be not unique to earth, the chances have been lowered in the eyes of some when taking some other factors in mind. The earth/moon-collision theory where a planet bumped onto earth 4 billion years ago (resulting in our moon) suggests that life was made possible because of this bump. So, the conditions that make life possible might require a fusion like this.. how often does that happen?
Next, Jupiter. It's argued that the presence of Jupiter is good for earth's life, as Jupiter acts as a shield for meteorites coming from the Oort-cloud. Just imagine Shoemacher-Levi hitting earth back then.. we must be lucky to have a Jupiter around. How many solarsystems have a Jupiter?
What if Mars and Venus are no option and we *have* to move to another solar system, somewhere lightyears away. We could technically build a giant ark already, carrying thousands of colonist, for a 100.000-year journey.
- Where are you going to find ppl who will never meet their goal, who will never return to their homeland/familly, and who are -formost- capable of making that journey in the first place (you don't want n00bs on board eh).
- How to keep peace on board? You can't have war and riots.
- Who says that when the ark arrives the ppl actually can be arsed to come out of their save 'home'-ark? Perhaps they'll see it as their permanent home, call it a day, and continue travelling. By then, the whole mission was useless anyway. This all, assuming this voyage will be made in the first place..
btw, I'm not at all against space exploration and space colonisation. I just don't think we can do it. Not now at least, and by the time we might be up to it, I highly doubt ppl are still around. From that pov I'd first like to see an answer to my geolgical question: what will the next epoch, era etc. look like? Previous epochs and eras were based on a certain change of climate or the (mass-)extinction of a species. These days we actually have the power to make a species extinct, but also to save a species, or even make new ones (such as our masses of cats and dogs). We even might have had a hand in a climate change (tho still unproved afaik).
Animals changed slightly in the past millions of years due evolution. Humans are actually trying to *not* change anymore. Some might argue that we grow fatter on a structural base, but that's actually not how we *want* to be. I question whether humans *have* to change or whether we can remain to be the same for millions or billions of years. Would we look the same in one million years from now?
Ohwell, random sunday-talk o_o
While 'life' might be not unique to earth, the chances have been lowered in the eyes of some when taking some other factors in mind. The earth/moon-collision theory where a planet bumped onto earth 4 billion years ago (resulting in our moon) suggests that life was made possible because of this bump. So, the conditions that make life possible might require a fusion like this.. how often does that happen?
Next, Jupiter. It's argued that the presence of Jupiter is good for earth's life, as Jupiter acts as a shield for meteorites coming from the Oort-cloud. Just imagine Shoemacher-Levi hitting earth back then.. we must be lucky to have a Jupiter around. How many solarsystems have a Jupiter?
What if Mars and Venus are no option and we *have* to move to another solar system, somewhere lightyears away. We could technically build a giant ark already, carrying thousands of colonist, for a 100.000-year journey.
- Where are you going to find ppl who will never meet their goal, who will never return to their homeland/familly, and who are -formost- capable of making that journey in the first place (you don't want n00bs on board eh).
- How to keep peace on board? You can't have war and riots.
- Who says that when the ark arrives the ppl actually can be arsed to come out of their save 'home'-ark? Perhaps they'll see it as their permanent home, call it a day, and continue travelling. By then, the whole mission was useless anyway. This all, assuming this voyage will be made in the first place..
btw, I'm not at all against space exploration and space colonisation. I just don't think we can do it. Not now at least, and by the time we might be up to it, I highly doubt ppl are still around. From that pov I'd first like to see an answer to my geolgical question: what will the next epoch, era etc. look like? Previous epochs and eras were based on a certain change of climate or the (mass-)extinction of a species. These days we actually have the power to make a species extinct, but also to save a species, or even make new ones (such as our masses of cats and dogs). We even might have had a hand in a climate change (tho still unproved afaik).
Animals changed slightly in the past millions of years due evolution. Humans are actually trying to *not* change anymore. Some might argue that we grow fatter on a structural base, but that's actually not how we *want* to be. I question whether humans *have* to change or whether we can remain to be the same for millions or billions of years. Would we look the same in one million years from now?
Ohwell, random sunday-talk o_o