(August 20, 2015 at 1:54 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:I can't quite remember the name but I read a good sci-fi book recently which is about a ship full of humans trying to survive in space but to go anywhere they have to stay and breed in space for a few generations, however without the earth's diverse ecosystem, it doesn't go too well and each successive generation gets physically and mentally weaker.(August 20, 2015 at 5:45 am)Napoléon Wrote: Well, you know what they say about Wikipedia...
Anyway, 600 million years is a long while, I wouldn't say it's an absolute necessity to look for another home in the 22nd century unless we really continue fucking things up on Earth that much, although I'd like to see us exploring the stars, I'd say it'll be another few hundred years at least before we find a new planet to live on. And that's being very optimistic IMO.
If I'm being alert it's because I'm thinking of how difficult it would be to find a viable planet in a different solar system and then travel to it. We would have to put our society in order and start focusing as a global society on advancing science and techonology if we ever hope to make it - that's what I think. We would also have to get rid of mass stupidity, educate everyone, feed everyone - basically make life liveable, comfortable and nice for everybody just so much more people could contribute to the advancement of our civilization.
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