House Hunting...

I have posed this question to friends:

When will it enter the main-stream conscienceness of us humans that we will, at some point, need to look elsewhere for a place to call home?

I know that each of us has bigger things to worry about right now. However, I have given this some thought. I think that it will become a priority only if certain conditions are satisfied. They are:

1.) Self preservation.
It becomes blindingly clear, almost to the point of our imminent extinction, that we need to get the hell out of Dodge. This may come in the form of invasion from another civilization, meteor, or our own trashing of the planet. The latter being the most probable in my book.

2.) Money/prestige/power. This one is my personal fav, running an extremely close second to #1;
The colonization of another planet shows itself to be a very lucrative venture to some country, corporation, or religious order. Ok, maybe not a religion, but it sounded good.

I could be altruistic and say that we could get our collective shit together and do it for the pure value of the challenge, exploration, and raising ourselves to the next level as a species, but hey, who am I kidding?

So, do you think that we could do a little "Plan ahead" and maybe get something going on that idea? If you would like to get laughed out of the clubhouse because you're a cheeseball geek that watches too much Star Trek, go ahead. There are way too many more pressing foreign and domestic, business and policy problems weighing on the greatest minds of this tiny blue marble spinning through this tiny little galaxy squatting in this miniscule parsect of this insignificant little parking space of the universe.

Just take a few minutes and think about what is out there...

Ok, that's enough. Go back to your half caff, double, no foam latte and try to figure out how you can get through the week in one piece and what the hell you want to do with the weekend.




Just a short end note; hopefully it is coming through my posts that I use sarcasm a lot (sic) and I am really an optimist. I believe that we will make it. But I think it will get worse before it gets better. We as a people need a few more burning crucibles to show us what is irrelevant, and what truly matters. Hang on, it's going to be a hell of a ride!

BTW the Mars project is gaining interest and funding from the private sector. I won't say that our government has some big secret plan to colonize Mars in the next few years, but I'm sure they're talking about something out there. Let's keep an eye on this shall we.

Yes, I'm a big Star Trek fan.