Comment Re:The essential question is WHY. (Score 1) 781
Why?
Our planet cannot provide for us forever. Unfortunately, we as humans, have not yet begun to learn to live in a balanced fashion on our own planet. We consume massive resources.
Resources that we could stop stripping the planet of. Many of those resources are in the asteroid belt. One moderately sized nickel iron asteroid could tide our metal needs over for many years to come. It would allow us to stop damaging the planet and use what is essentially solar system trash. Think of it as recycling on a macro scale.
It would give us the extra time we need to learn to live in a balanced state with our planet before we move off of it.
I hope that we as a species do move off planet and eventually out of the solar system. If we don't then we die. Eventually. All of us. All of our history, our hopes, our dreams, our desires, our knowledge will be snuffed out if we don't.
Our sun won't live forever. I know I won't live to see it die and neither will anyone else; but it WILL die.
That is my answer to your question.
Our planet cannot provide for us forever. Unfortunately, we as humans, have not yet begun to learn to live in a balanced fashion on our own planet. We consume massive resources.
Resources that we could stop stripping the planet of. Many of those resources are in the asteroid belt. One moderately sized nickel iron asteroid could tide our metal needs over for many years to come. It would allow us to stop damaging the planet and use what is essentially solar system trash. Think of it as recycling on a macro scale.
It would give us the extra time we need to learn to live in a balanced state with our planet before we move off of it.
I hope that we as a species do move off planet and eventually out of the solar system. If we don't then we die. Eventually. All of us. All of our history, our hopes, our dreams, our desires, our knowledge will be snuffed out if we don't.
Our sun won't live forever. I know I won't live to see it die and neither will anyone else; but it WILL die.
That is my answer to your question.
