I'm no scientist, I hold no degrees, however it seems to me that we have a plethora of issues we still have not been able to resolve right here on planet earth. How can we as a species expect to successfully colonize other worlds if we still have places here that have not been successfully converted into habitable areas, such as the Arctic and Antarctic not to mention creating aquatic habitats along the ocean floor.
We still have issues with garbage, a basic necessity in any industrialized society. Tons and tons of garbage float in the oceans in a self created island that circles in the Pacific. We burn some trash, but most is buried in landfills. There are still areas that there is no trash collection where it piles high on streets. How can we even remotely consider the idea of colonizing another planet when so many issues plague our own.
I've been watching a television series on Netflix the past two days about The Northwest Passage and how it is being affected by climate change. Fixing the climate is a pretentious goal and one of folly, unless the governments aren't telling us something. Are they not telling us that they created this global warming, I don't know, but to think it's fixable by man is silly. Science has shown warming and cooling trends over thousands of years, so did man create that too even before we knew about it? Still not my point.
In the show we follow several groups of people through the Northwest Passage on yachts and cruise ships and we get to meet the local inhabitants of the Arctic, the Inuit. Looking at the state of things up in the Arctic and how it seems that it isn't a high priority to governments makes me wonder why anyone would believe we can colonize space anytime soon. It's a lofty goal, but one ultimately doomed to failure unless we can build engines that create warped space, or travel through warp speed. Even travel with sub-light engines would take, in some cases, centuries. We would have to create generation ships to make the journey. There's not a ship in the universe I would want to spend the rest of my life aboard and have my great great grandchildren raised on board a ship, so that really isn't an option, not to mention the resources necessary to accomplish such a foolhardy task.
How can we even consider colonization of other planets when we have so many unsolved problems here? Just looking at the way the Inuit situation has been handled gives me great concern for the future of any manned missions, and now they're planning on stranding people on Mars soon? This is mental illness, not science, not progress. The Inuit live in ramshackle huts, for goodness sake! Food it almost three times as expensive in the Arctic as it is in lower Americas. Garbage has not been solved, it sits in piles for scavengers to go through, like bears and other wild animals. If governments were serious about space travel, they would fix the issues we already have here on our own planet.
Starting with the Arctic, we built up as though living on an alien world. We started small with tents and huts, but that seems to be where interest has ceased. What should have happened was continuous support with goods and services and a dome should've been constructed. The Arctic is the best place to practice living on other planets. They should've put up huge domed cities by now with jobs for every citizen, but transportation is still stuck in the past. That is one of the main problems with colonizing places, providing a support structure with regularly scheduled shipments of low priced goods. When I see these shows I see places people would like to forget exist. We just have too many problems to number here in this terrible post, I admit that, it's not the best post. It's not well thought out, but consider this, it shouldn't even exist. The mere fact that anything needed to be said on the subject by someone such as me reflects on how we should not be looking to the stars any time soon for colonizing other planets.
Imagine those poor people who are going to Mars soon, if they go through with this pure insanity. It won't end well. Logistical support for colonizing Mars is still very much before its infancy, it's still in the idea stage. Why would anyone want to travel to an inhospitable planet like Mars with such horrible chances of success, its suicide! Just look at what happened to early explorers of the Arctic. They may as well have gone to Mars. Most died! There's no trash collection on Mars, the trip takes six months, there's no pizza delivery, messages take a long time to send and receive, there are no beaches, oceans, people, animals, etc. It's a barren rock. We have that here and those haven't been successfully inhabited by people. Why should we as tax payers foot the bill to what amounts to suicide and junk science? We haven't even been able to create a workable shopping mall on the bottom of the ocean, yet!
This is just my frustration at the folly of man and the so called 'people in charge'. This will go unheeded. People will not listen and think to themselves "Hey, he has a point!" We are still stuck on politics like religion, nationality, color, creed, rich and poor, and so much more. I'm a big picture kind of person, I see things in the overall view, I don't pick out details usually. This drain on our economy is staggering. We can't even successfully build a working community in the aftermath of a war that seems to be going on and on in the desert of all places. Colonization of other planets? DONT MAKE ME LAUGH, ILL PEE MYSELF! Fix the situation in the Arctic, build domed cities that run on renewable energy, bring people to both poles and have a successful colony there first, then we can start talking about colonizing other planets. Give us better transportation that do not require fossils fuels. Build a working warp engine and sub-light engines that don't need fossile fuels, there's no gas stations in space. Create sustainable living on the ocean floor. Then let's talk about Mars, it's just too early, still a pipe dream.
Much love and light,
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