Why should humans colonise other planets?
”That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.” said Carl Sagan once upon a time.
Across the entire the history of humanity, our focused efforts to leave this place took us as far as the moon — but that was 50 years ago. Despite the advances in technology since 1969, we have not made a serious concerted effort to go much beyond it and establish ourselves in the stars.
We have enough problems here on earth. Wars. Famine. Poverty. Why export these beyond our Terran home? Here are 5 reasons:
1. Single point of failure: As far as we know — we are the only form of intelligent life that exists in the universe. The fact that our entire population is concentrated on this small planet means that there is effectively a…
