One_King_4900 t1_ixffh6u wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:02 AM

Reply to comment by Jax2 in Do you agree with Stephen Hawking about Earth being unsustainable? by yaykarin

I agree with your sentiment. We should not be ALLOWED to move beyond this planet. We will only bring harm wherever we go.

At the current rate of tech we possess the only way we could even practically make it To another habitable planet would be to build an intergalactic “cruise ship” if you will that could support a few people for at the bare minimum three generations of life. But that would be basically inbreeding at that point an we would most likely not make it either way.

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Jax2 t1_ixfgt6b wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:12 AM

>I agree with your sentiment. We should not be ALLOWED to move beyond this planet. We will only bring harm wherever we go.

Exactly - if we ever DID decide to try and colonize another planet at some point in the far distant future, the main factor in doing so would be profitability. Money drives everything, including innovation - there is little use for innovation unless there's a return on the time / investment. If deep space travel ever did become viable, it would be only because massive corporations or governments see a large enough profit to continue pursuing the idea.