It would be the same sort of magic technology that would allow humans to land on, and successfully colonize, a habitable planet. Closer to home, it would be the same magic technology that would allow Mars or some other body in the solar system to become habitable. In other words, it's the sort of technology that doesn't yet exist.
But you might be right. Technology might have peaked and we might never have a symbiotic relationship with Earth, but that doesn't mean we should give up trying. Giving up is never the best option.
I never said we should colonize Mars or even the Moon, all I said was that eventually we would have to go to space in some capacity or another. Quite frankly I doubt we'll ever colonize Mars, or at the very least it'll be so far in the future that any speculation on the subject is so close to pointless that I simply do not care about it.
See the issue with the whole 'reaching a symbiotic relationship with Earth' is that by its nature the Earth is a limited resource and eventually the biomass will have metabolized all the stuff it can and then the Earth will no longer be able to sustain life, at that point we'll either die out or have to import raw material from other places.
Dude, calm down. I'm not the one calling you a nutter (although the trans-human species thing does sound a little whack). My point was that future technologies not only have the possibility of magically transporting us to other worlds, they also have the possibility of solving many of the problems that would force us to leave this planet in the first place.
I know you're not the one calling me a nutter, was replying to more than one post. And honestly there's nothing magic about technology that could potentially transport us to other worlds. we have tech capable of taking us to Mars right now, it'd just be a bigger version of stuff we already have. Granted, actually building stuff from that technology is such a huge undertaking it might be effectively impossible at this point in time. But then again I honestly think that a colony on Mars isn't really what we should be focusing on right now or even for a few hundred years, at this point in time I'd be perfectly happy seeing the space agencies focusing on the Moon and stuff inside the radius of the Moon's orbit,
I mean, assuming ITER achieves fusion and the follow-up industrial testbed also ends up successful, that means we will eventually have to go to space since the fuel needed to run a reactor like that isn't available on Earth in quantities that are anywhere near close to being useful.
Wow.
I've read and re-read my post several times. All two sentences of it. I can't find where I said we shouldn't exploit space for resources. My post simply challenged your assertion that there were only two choices for humanity: colonize space, or "die out and vanish forever". I happen to believe there's a third alternative. Sorry you've had such an emotional reaction to it.
You never said anything to that effect, again I was replying to more than one post. My post never said we should straight up colonize space; as I've said before I think that speculation on the subject of humanity as a interplanetary species is so close to futurology that discussion on the subject becomes for all intents and purposes science fiction; entertaining but not that useful.
What I think we should do is focus on what is close to us, and that means continuing space research at the current pace and working on more effective power generation, as I said, I quite honestly think that if we ever crack fusion then the whole 'going to space'-thing will follow naturally.
