NASA says "we're definitely going to kill ourselves" (generation, death)

[Goodnight]

You mean the earth has finite non-renewable resources like helium, fossil fuels, copper, aluminum, and here I thought this could go on forever.

Doubling the earths population every few decades has an impact on the quality of life??

[AuDiBelle]

Looks like Obama's plan to liberalize NASA is working. Anyone remember Obama's push for NASA to engage in Muslim outreach?

NASA needs to return to their original mission and vision.

[jetgraphics]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Doubling the earths population every few decades has an impact on the quality of life??

Doubling : Roughly 40 - 50 years. (based on past trends - though this may change)
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For long term resolution of the causes for war (unmet necessities) and cope with the geometric expansion of the human race, the obvious answer is to look outward, into outer space. Outside of the deep gravity well of our home planet, there is expansion space, unending power, and immense resources. Space colonization is the answer to generate world peace, as world peace is the answer to generate space colonization. For mankind needs to divert its surplus resources from eternal predation to cooperation in the leap into space. By building immense orbiting colonies, capable of holding millions of lifeforms, humanity can invalidate the limitations of a finite planet and finite resources. Even with geometric population expansion, humanity would not exhaust the resources of the solar system for several thousands of years.
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Space Settlement
Asteroid Mining: Key to the Space Economy

Space Colonization Basics

"Why build space settlements? Why do weeds grow through cracks in sidewalks? Why did life crawl out of the oceans and colonize land? Because living things want to grow and expand. We have the ability to live in space (see the bibliography), therefore we will -- but not this fiscal year

"The key advantage of space settlements is the ability to build new land, rather than take it from someone else. This allows a huge expansion of humanity without war or destruction of Earth's biosphere. The asteroids alone provide enough material to make new orbital land *hundreds of times greater than the surface of the Earth, divided into millions of colonies. This land can easily support trillions of people."

(*He's being modest. )

[brownbagg]

nasa also said this week that there no such thing as global man made warming, so which one are you going to believe.

[TrapperJohn]

Originally Posted by brownbagg

nasa also said this week that there no such thing as global man made warming, so which one are you going to believe.

I don't think NASA said that.

[T-310]

The NASA that put men on the moon doesn't exist.

We now have this cabal of PC idiots.

[ChestRockwell]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

You mean the earth has finite non-renewable resources like helium, fossil fuels, copper, aluminum, and here I thought this could go on forever.

Doubling the earths population every few decades has an impact on the quality of life??

Yep, the earth indeed has finite resources. One thing there clearly is no shortage of is Kool-Aid

[brownbagg]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

I don't think NASA said that.

google can be your friend

[JohnnyMack]

People are confusing "Climate Change" and "Global Warming". NOT the same thing.

Personally, I think Humans have very little affect on the global weather.

Volcanoes have more of an impact on regional weather patterns.

In a hundred years or so the thought of burning fossil fuels for energy will seem silly.

Nature tends to take care of population control on its own.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by brownbagg

google can be your friend

They didn't make that statement.