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| Authored by: albert on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 07:16 PM EDT |
| Perhaps by then they will be producing edible patent filings. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
...actually potentially a really good reason. I'm just
imagining little green men popping out of a flying saucer
and asking for asylum. 'Well, we figure there are no lawyers
here...'
...a few long-term habitats could be a good idea - for
instance - to simplify asteroid mining. I think that once
we're out of the gravity well, we might want to stay out.
...long-term (centuries)...it may be feasible to make Mars
and/or Venus habitable...and possibly some of Jupiter's
moons.
...longer-term (around the time we are using most of the
Sun's energy)...it probably will be feasible for something
resembling a human to visit other solar systems.
...much longer term, visiting the galactic core would be
interesting and potentially useful.
...excepting asteroid mining, I don't see much incentive to
send humans far from earth for the next hundred years of so.
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 02:14 PM EDT |
| The Patent Office? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT |
To get our eggs in multiple baskets. Someday there will be another eruption
of a Toba, or Yellowstone type volcano, or we may get hit by an asteroid. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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