do you think space colonization is necessary? explain.
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Maybe it isn't necessary, over an above having our eggs in more than one basket….
Star-trek and the race to the moon may have shaped perceptions for this and the next century, but what if a future mankind has other ideals and doesn't even care about space?
I love nature, and this world but i don't see that as where the human intellect is moving. Sad, but quite truthful. I would love to see a colony on mars and on Centauri-B, but in any case, our next generation might rather want to be hooked up to VR gaming/reality 24/7 and may not even bother about space travel. Virtual Space might be their thing. They would most likely want to explore the in-saneness of Virtual-Space instead, where unlike reality,which involves lots of hard work and resource consumption, the only limit is their imagination.
Most of these problems about getting to Mars, or gravity, or a protective atmosphere or even the Time required to get to an extra-solar planet don’t even matter if we were to replace ‘Humans’ with Robots for the time being or even indefinitely. While we waste our time in virtual space, caring less about boring things like hard-work and innovation and survival; ever-more intelligent AI and those last few scientists who don’t have a ‘Virtual-life’ :) (and believe that they have a hope of fathoming the ‘intelligence’ of their ever improving AI counterparts) can work on the problem.
Future humans may want to be permanently inside Virtual-Reality (VR) and may not even move around ‘real-space’ at all. Kind of like the Matrix, except that we choose it. Think about the resources that we may save. We just might not value real-space as it would be so less stimulating than the virtual one, which has instant gratification and minimal, if any hard-work. hard-work? You know, that thing that has delayed gratification that our primitive ancestors did, but is currently done by our computers. You know, how many Humans do you see in the modern day running away from Cities and going back to the Wild? , naked, primitive and without Netflix, PSVR and no ADSL or fibre in their entertainment diet? Perhaps the next step is from the City-life to Virtual life?
Cryongenic sleep whilst moving from Mars to the planets on Sirius? Hell NO. Thats what our ancient ancestors (referred to as grandparents) wanted. How about permanent sleep? And our robots can do all the stuff for us while we play around in virtual reality.Oh and when we get there, why even bother to wake up and play tag on the new planets surface?
Perhaps a few ‘Virtualised’ human’s’ may take some time off of their version of “DOTA” or “Destiny” to read a quick article about how AI has now gotten to Centauri-B and the wolf constellation and should have an atmosphere up there in another 100 thousand years for any now ‘VR based meta humans’ who would like to go and set up their PlayStation 25 Full body-VR sets there instead of on Earth.
Heck, maybe that's the reason why we don't see Aliens? Cause they are all hooked up to their XBOX version of VR. Perhaps we would then order our AI masterminds to “Seek out new alien VR Worlds” and to “Boldy connect our VR space, like no other cross platform online network has Done before!”