(July 19, 2015 at 2:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(July 19, 2015 at 2:00 pm)dyresand Wrote: We could and should colonize space seeing how much damage we caused to the planet but the thing is money would be an issue.
-only until we got up there and realized that we had what amounted to a practically infinite amount of raw material work with.
The problem is getting to it in the first place. If all the nations of the world contributed to a common effort to build a space-based infrastructure, we could do it. It's just an awfully expensive proposition for anyone going at it alone. And then there is the total lack of vision of the people who control the money.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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