Humans destined to be multiplanetary

[VZX]

As far as the article says about humans changing into something else and not being able to return to Earth, I do find that laughable. If humans are born on other worlds, in galaxies far, far away, and the conditions are similiar to Earth or harsher (higher gravity, lower air density, etc) they could return quite easily and find Earth to be far easier on them. The only problem that might occur is if somehow the species begins to split, where there are people living on planets who's conditions are far lower (significantly less gravity for example) and they try to return, life will be difficult at first. I guess depending on how far apart the conditions are and are much they have changed. But I don't see humans being around long enough for this to happen enough. Besides, I know what's going to happen, I watch movies. Humans go and terraform other planets and create New Earths, so there's no need to worry about conditions different from Earth, aimirite? Or there's always the chance we'll move to a red sun and gain super human like powers. 8)

Mankind has a long way to go before reaching that point. >_> You have to make the assumption one day, we will manage to go beyond the speed of light, but that itself is very unlikely. Terraforming is doable on a physics standpoint, but still unlikely and too much trouble for what its worth.

I'm thinking the same
our future device might have done something like "Changing the condition of a planet" earlier than something like "changing the human body to adapt certain condition" (And what I mean is like a permanent device attached to your body for your entire life.. like your genes)

[Ace-o-fire]

in a way it think this is true.

I'm going to take this from the matrix, cuz it's something i put some thought into.
Humans are kind of like a virus of sorts. We can live and make use of areas, that aren't the best place for us to be. We would live in such an area till what ever we needed from the said place is gone, that we would pack up and move one. This is why areas of the world are inhabited on and uninhabited (Though i will admit that much of this does factor in to the earlier patterns of human behavior, before it was easy to get from A to B. this would be probably from start of civilization - 1600's). Deserts, Northern Canada, pretty much the most of Russia and majority of Australia too.

If there was a planet with oxygen on it and there where storms that raged half a year in near kelvin zero, but the other half of the year, there was a source of a item that could bring money, you bet your sweet ass we would be there until it's all gone. Then we would move on to the next planet that has some amount of money to be made off it.


It's really based on our need to get more money.

[Xavier]

As soon as the Buggers strike I'm sure we'll all be a lot more worried about planet colonization.

[Kaelan]

As far as the article says about humans changing into something else and not being able to return to Earth, I do find that laughable. If humans are born on other worlds, in galaxies far, far away, and the conditions are similiar to Earth or harsher (higher gravity, lower air density, etc) they could return quite easily and find Earth to be far easier on them. The only problem that might occur is if somehow the species begins to split, where there are people living on planets who's conditions are far lower (significantly less gravity for example) and they try to return, life will be difficult at first.

Going from higher gravity to lower gravity puts significantly less physical stress on your muscles and your bones than normal, which can lead them to serious physical problems, which is why astronauts have to go through ridiculously harsh physical training before and during any actual missions outside our own planet.

On the other hand, if you're adapted to a lower gravity (like most other "possibly terraformable" planets in our solar system have), your skeletal structure is going to be weaker and you're going to be much more prone to hurting yourself (badly) when you go to a higher gravity (I.e. back to earth)

Whatever we end up adapting to, going from something you're adapted to something you're not is more likely to fuck you up than to help you in any way, wether is from a "harsher" to a "lighter" envoironment, or the other way around. Chances are we'd end up trying to find a way to simulate things like the Earth's gravity on other planets, even if it's just inside contained spaces and not the entire planet, so we could avoid this kind of stuff

[DarktaruFM]

About OP:

This sound so much like manifest destiny it sickens me.

Yes, adaptation part is different. which btw will NOT happen in a few generations since genetics arent THAT advanced yet.


We will most probably exterminate our own species before that happens anyway.

[Fhqwghads]

Screw lower gravity. I'm going to train like Goku on high gravity planets and then come back to earth and Kamehameha Bush right in the fuckin' face after I drop kick his ass a few times for fun.

[Heroic]

Screw lower gravity. I'm going to train like Goku on high gravity planets and then come back to earth and Kamehameha Bush right in the fuckin' face after I drop kick his ass a few times for fun.

What if Zalius moonsex'd and a green baby named Cell came out, WHAT WOULD YOU DO THEN!

[Decillion]

Go read the book Hyperion by Dan Simmons. (seriously, if you're even slightly interested in science fiction, you'll love this book)

Assuming we don't kill ourselves first, that book probably best describes what life will be like several hundred years from now.

[thetruepandagod]

As soon as the Buggers strike I'm sure we'll all be a lot more worried about planet colonization.

couldnt we just get ender wiggins

[jiang]

humans are extremely adaptive and durable, ranging from inhabiting extremely cold to extremely hot environments. i'm pretty sure that the race itself will be around for a long time. As for things like culture, ideals, ethics, knowledge, economy, you can probably bet on it all dissapearing. as you all know, a great deal of knowledge was lost during the dark ages due to barbarians overthrowing all the romans. also, we still don't know how the egyptians built the pyramids, how advanced the greeks really were, and among other things.

so in terms of losing KNOWLEDGE, and CULTURE, yes. but as you can see humans can only expand their horizons, unless of course theres another black plague to wipe us out

[Demosthenes11]

As soon as the Buggers strike I'm sure we'll all be a lot more worried about planet colonization.

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