1: It’s awesome. It’s desirable for the same reason fast cars, fun computer games, giant pyramids, and sex is.
2: It’s an insurance policy against things that might wreck the earth but not other planets/solar systems.
3: Insofar as we can imagine there to be other alien races, understanding space colonization is extremely important either for trade or self defense.
4: It’s possible different subsets of humanity can never happily coexist, in which case having arbitrarily large amounts of space to live in ensures more peace and stability.
It’s awesome. It’s desirable for the same reason fast cars, fun computer games, giant pyramids, and sex is.
In sci-fi maybe. I doubt people actually living in space (or on un-Earth-like planets) would concur, without some very extensive technological change.
It’s possible different subsets of humanity can never happily coexist, in which case having arbitrarily large amounts of space to live in ensures more peace and stability.
New incompatible sub-subsets will just keep arising in new colonies—as has happened historically.
1: It’s awesome. It’s desirable for the same reason fast cars, fun computer games, giant pyramids, and sex is.
2: It’s an insurance policy against things that might wreck the earth but not other planets/solar systems.
3: Insofar as we can imagine there to be other alien races, understanding space colonization is extremely important either for trade or self defense.
4: It’s possible different subsets of humanity can never happily coexist, in which case having arbitrarily large amounts of space to live in ensures more peace and stability.
In sci-fi maybe. I doubt people actually living in space (or on un-Earth-like planets) would concur, without some very extensive technological change.
New incompatible sub-subsets will just keep arising in new colonies—as has happened historically.