Space colonization.

[Liber Lupus]

It would take like the whole EU, NATO, or just a mixture of them.

NATO is just a military alliance...

I read somewhere that people will be able to live on the moon in 50 years or so.
With rapid growth in technology, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.

Yeah? Some people hoped for the same thing like 50 years ago and it hasn't happened yet.

[Tallacaps]

Space colonization is our destiny.





Humans must conquer universe.

It is the safest way to survive. Because of period wars.
We must bring earth's life's to sterile planets and moons.

I doubt we would have to fight against E.T.'s.

A observatory at a high point above Everytown. A telescopic mirror of the night sky showing the cylinder as a very small speck against a starry background Cabal and Passworthy stand before this mirror.
    Cabal: "There! There they go! That faint gleam of light."
    Pause.
    Passworthy: "I feel - what we have done - is monstrous."
    Cabal: "What they have done is magnificent."
    Passworthy: "Will they return?"
    Cabal: "Yes. And go again And again - until the landing can be made and the moon is conquered. This is only a beginning."
    Passworthy: "And if they don t return - my son and your daughter? What of that Cabal?"
    Cabal (with a catch in his voice but resolute): "Then presently others will go."
    Passworthy: "My God! Is there never to be an age of happiness? Is there never to be rest?"
    Cabal: "Rest enough for the individual man. Too much of it and too soon, and we call it death But for MAN no rest and no ending. He must go on - conquest beyond conquest. This little planet and its winds and ways and all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him Then the planets about him, and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time - still he will be beginning"
    Passworthy: "But we are such little creatures. Poor Humanity. So fragile - so weak."
    Cabal: "Little animals, eh?"
    Passworthy: "Little animals."
    Cabal: "If we are no more than animals - we must snatch at our little scraps of happiness and live and suffer and pass, mattering no more-than all the other animals do - or have done." (He points out at the stars). "It is that - or this? All the universe or nothingness. . . . Which shall it be, Passworthy?"
    The two men fade out against the starry background until only the stars remain.
    The musical finale becomes dominant.
    Cabal's voice is heard repeating through the music:
    "Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?"
    A louder, stronger voice reverberates through the auditorium: "WHICH SHALL IT BE?"

[TazG]

Well, it will most likely become necessary eventually. Moon is close, but not that good. Mars is also a possibility. Uranus is the only other possible one, but that'd be more for resources than for living space.

wait wait wait... Uranus? How is Uranus even remotely possible its a giant gasball we would be crushed by the pressure before we even got to where you supposedly think we could stay.

[Kszchroink]

Space colonization is our destiny.

That was the most mind-numbing thing I've read on these forums, and I've read the airplane on a windmill thread. Why the hell did you put in those images and the script excerpt?

[7th_account]

If the Stargate franchise has taught us anything it's that this is already going on behind our backs.

[numgun]

I would really like to travel out there among the stars, and to see other worlds and such, to know what is out there.. I want it so much I even dream of it at night, and sometimes I just sit out in the backyard when it's totally dark around me, and look up at the stars.
The whole entering space deal has been running through my mind for as long as I can remember, and I find it hard to conclude on its ethics. I definitely think we should put more money in saving our own world. after all, if we can't take care of this planet, who are we to travel to any other and ruin that as well? Agent Smith really has a point in the virus thing when it comes to that.

On the other hand, we probably don't have much of a chioce. If the technology is available when this world colapses, and we all know it will at some point in a somewhat near future, there is no doubt that we will flee out in space and settle somewhere else. I guess we'll always do anything to survive.

Ditto on every word.
I'd love to travel into outer space and beyond. Its a dream for me.

[Graham]

It would be like what people say about New York City. It would be nice to visit but not to live there.

[Dascoo]

Space colonization is our destiny.

That was the most mind-numbing thing I've read on these forums, and I've read the airplane on a windmill thread. Why the hell did you put in those images and the script excerpt?

I thought putting the images and script exerpts was silly too....but, do you truly think humanity will stay on Earth forever?

[Kszchroink]

Space colonization is our destiny.

That was the most mind-numbing thing I've read on these forums, and I've read the airplane on a windmill thread. Why the hell did you put in those images and the script excerpt?

I thought putting the images and script exerpts was silly too....but, do you truly think humanity will stay on Earth forever?

No, I think that Humans must conquer universe. It is the safest way to survive. Because of period wars. We must bring earth's life's to sterile planets and moons. I doubt we would have to fight against E.T.'s.

[homey188]

Well, it will most likely become necessary eventually. Moon is close, but not that good. Mars is also a possibility. Uranus is the only other possible one, but that'd be more for resources than for living space.

wait wait wait... Uranus? How is Uranus even remotely possible its a giant gasball we would be crushed by the pressure before we even got to where you supposedly think we could stay.

No.  It actually has less gravity than earth.  The only real problems would be temperature and getting oxygen. 
Put up wind turbines, and use the electricity from them to separate the water into oxygen and hydrogen.  Breath the oxygen, burn the hydrogen.  Won't completely solve the problem, but it might make supply runs less frequent.  Of course, you'd need some crazy heaters to bring the heat up to bearable, but it'll be the future.

[Dascoo]

How do you suggest we survive the immense pressure?

[a-4-year-old]

How do you suggest we survive the immense pressure?

SILICON BIOSHEILD!

[startrek] life support [/startrek]