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RE: The Best Place to Colonize: Mars or Titan?
Great job! I only wish we'd get back to understanding how to live here first before going out there to do the same thing some of us, by now most of us, are doing, wrecking the place where we live. Thanks for the sharing and namaste :)
Thank you.
Well, success in this area can theoretically be of great benefit to our planet, in the sense that it will decrease the environmental pollution on the Earth. Why get crumbs here, if you can extract the mountain of sources on "dead" planets.
...Because nothing is "dead", everything has a purpose way beyond what anyone, or anything, could ever know and bringing about risks to our own survival.
For instance, if we decided to do some mining for helium 3 on the moon, even if it looks dead the resulting effect would create a major acceleration toward phasing out of our seasons on the planet here, only to mention one example.
Playing billiard with the cosmos, involves playing with our own backyard sort a speak. Becoming responsible doesn't risk anyone's life and improve the potential to all, especially the ones to come. If we were to ever get to that point where we would be, again, responsible for our sustained life on this planet, then I'd greatly support the advancement toward colonization of any so-called planet or moon. Unfortunately, till then, I see it more like a attempt to either deflect what needs to be done by ourselves to save ourselves, a potentially unaware and frivolous "mad-scientist" idea or simply a mad idea in itself, fun to entertain but most potentially deadly to apply.
Now, if we consider the risk management of it all, I can only come back to is it worth the risk, especially considering the alternatives which would be an awful lot more cost effective on the long run? From there, do we have the time??? If time were to be of the essence, then wouldn't the people involved really push toward efficiency to resolve this matter once and for all as the incentive would continuously build in strength toward everyone's mind?
Life is riding on the edge of a knife for the ones not following the law of nature and, for the rare few who still can cling to their rights to do so, life is already in matters of balance but they sure do have an edge on the latter. Namaste :)