Space junk, a danger to space exploration.

[Brian37]

My ultimate take on our species is this. We are an invasive species. And right now, at this point in history, I don't think collectively we recognize at this point we are on the verge of becoming a victim of our own success. It is true we have made massive strides in knowlege and innovation, but at the same time, we have sped up concumption. And as much as we call innovation progress, of which not all is bad, we have sped up the pace of consumption. 

I most certianly love the fact I can use a laptop instead of the Pony express. But at the same time, the bigger human population increases, the more resources we comete for. I'd only point out, that the bigger our species population becomes, the more competition for resources there is, and the more expensive it becomes, and the more humans fight over those resources.

Ultimately, I really think humans need to focus on earth, here and now, and accept that human population managment is as important as resource managment. I love the idea of space exploration, but space tourism is bullshit right now.

Not sure I agree with the invasive species part. But yeah for the most part I agree with this.

Humans at this point in biological history, have the most power to do the most short term damage to life than any other species. And by "invasive" we are too fucking stupid to see, that as many buildings we build, and as many trees we cut down, and as much trash we dump in the ocean, just in order to build the next "tallest building in the world", or the next "BUT WAIT, ACT NOW, AND WE WILL DOUBLE YOUR ORDER" bullshit ad, we, don't seem to understand worldwide, collectively, that we cannot simply exploit, and expand and consume our species way to prosperity.

I have long since noticed, every time I go into a box store, just the shere number of individual items, from cloths, to toys, to atomotive, to tvs, to video games, to shoes, to clothing, to food. In one single Walmart, that is hundreds of thousands of individual items. That is not the collective worldwide sale of any store. Point is, humans are masters at production, but we are lousy at thinking about long term concumption.