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Quote by: Court463  I just finished watching a History Channel documentary on Humans colonizing Mars. And I came across an Intresting point. Should Humanity expand beyond the earth.
In my opinion yes, we should and we will. But I know there are some people out there who think we should just leave it alone and not leave the Earth, I was wondering what other peoples opinions were.
Another point is, Is there ethical concerns with Teraforming Mars.
Meaning would it be wrong for Humans to physically change a planet so that we could live there. |
A lot of questions, too bad the History Channel did not answer them.
Not sure about ethical concerns, but they should preserve some of the planet in it's natural state in possible, like we preserve some natural areas of our planet.
The concern about taraforming is that we might mess with the balance of things. Example: if you remove a rock from the moon you make it's total weight that much less, although it would be not be by very much that change would effect it's orbit in a teenie weenie way, if you believe in the concept that all things are connected such that everything effects everything else, then somehow removing that rock would have a tiny impact on the whole universe. Example: if the moons orbit did shift enough it could effect the earth, perhaps resulting in a slight climate change here. But I doubt if we could conduct a environmental study about what effects taraforming Mars would have on our solar system.
I do not think that individuals have enough control to prevent our exploration of the solar system. It is a historical momentum that would be hard to stop. From the first shaman that dressed up in eagle feathers the human race wanted to fly. Our mythology speaks about it. Fight represents freedom (free as a bird) and we have been on a historical mission throughout history towards that objective. Even when we collectively were unaware of our passion. Our technology has been geared toward competing that mission, from bikes to airplanes, to jets, to rocket ships, we want to fly like superman. Our evolving technology seems to be taking that pathway as if on it's own momentum. We even want to get high on drugs and religion, as a spin off of that historical desire that motivates us to blast off from Mother Earth. And the womb of Mother Earth has supplied us with every material we need for that birthing, and liberation, as well as the intelligence to complete the task.
Like a bird taking a seed from one location to another so that plants can become moble, our job is to take plants and animals to other planets that remain bare. To help Mother Nature to expand thoughout the universe.
That might sound far out, but just look around at all the evidence for this, some of which I noted.