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If we cant even solve our humanity problems on earth how could we move somewhere else

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natural selection and cyborgization as humanity spreads throughout the cosmos will result in species diversification

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using technology to modify and enhance our bodies and brains—is much more likely to influence the evolutionary trajectories of future populations

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Consider what is likely to happen as humanity hops from Earth to Mars, and from Mars to relatively nearby, potentially habitable exoplanets like Consider what is likely to happen as humanity hops from Earth to Mars, and from Mars to relatively nearby, potentially habitable exoplanets like Epsilon Eridani b, Gliese 674 b, and Gliese 581 d

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My conclusion is that in a colonized universe the probability of the annihilation of the human race could actually rise rather than fall.

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Escaping Earth is about much more than dodging the bullet of extinction

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humanity will eventually need to escape Earth to survive, since the sun will make the planet uninhabitable in about 1 billion years

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The former administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin, frames it as a matter of the “survival of the species.” And the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said that if humanity fails to colonize space within 100 years, we could face extinction.

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Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, argues that “there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multiplanetary…to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that it would stimulate the economy and inspire the next generation of scientists

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Asteroids or planets may have new materials that we don’t have on Earth.

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The amount of materials in a single asteroid could be more than $100 billion.

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here are more than 500,000 items of debris that are currently being tracked as they orbit our planet. This space junk is litter that is flying at a speed of over 17,500 miles per hour, which means an impact could do great damage.

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There are high fuel costs required to launch anything into orbit. Using the US Space Shuttle program as an example, the total mass of all propellants was over 3.8 million pounds

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It is extremely expensive

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We could find other life

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By 2017, there were 105 countries who had signed onto the treaty and another 24 who have signed, but not yet ratified it. This treaty forbids placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, installing them on the moon, or any other location in space. The treaty also disallows any nation from claiming a celestial resource as a national appropriation.

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Should something happen that changes the environment of the planet, it would have the potential of wiping out the entire human species It could save us

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In 2017, this telescope discovered that a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, name 2007 OR10, has a moon that was previously unknown

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Voyager 1, have traveled more than 138 AU from our planet since launching, with the goal of discovering what interstellar space may have in store.

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Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, announced his company’s plans to send the first human mission to Mars as early as 2024

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Much of the world was made up of former colonies that resented their former status

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NSS has been using the term Space Settlement rather than Space Colonization since our beginning in 1975.

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Despite the 40-plus years of the Space Movement using the term Space Settlement, society may well push us to using the term Space Colonization in the future.

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SpaceX’s plans to settle Mars during the International Astronautical Congress in late September 2016. This announcement is likely to cause the goal of Space Settlement to make a major jump toward the mainstream.

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Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, announced his company’s plans to send the first human mission to Mars as early as 2024

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SEDS Act would make Space Settlement an official goal of NASA

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Space Settlement is the goal of both of these companies. The Space Exploration Development and Settlement Act was introduced in Congress on March 16, 2016.

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Both SpaceX and Blue Origin, using only non-government funds, have returned launch vehicles to Earth for reuse, signaling an imminent reduction in space transportation costs

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The NSS has been pushing space colonization since 1975