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Colonise, or die.
Topic Started: Aug 9 2010, 07:46 PM (179 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Hawking speaks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1301482/Human-race-colonise-space-face-extinction-warns-Stephen-Hawking.html?ITO=1490
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Makes perfect sense to me. All planets are finite, and growth or death seem to me to be the two states of nature. There seems to be no stasis.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
With NASA engaged in Muslim outreach colonization of other planets looks to be pretty far off.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Mikhailoh
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Indeed we seem to be more focused on the aliens.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
I do not think this will ever happen.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
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This means that humans might one day be able to use time travel to skip generations into the future.
Having taken six years to reach its full speed of 98 per cent of the speed of light (650million miles per hour), a day on board the ship would be equivalent to a year on Earth, he said, allowing those on board to reach the edge of the galaxy in just 80 years.


I think the story is by Andre Norton, but there is a SF short story from somewhere around 1960, where mankind is divided into planet people and ship crew. Ship crew are born and live their lives out aboard ship, for the most part. Everytime they return from a journey, they are greeted with a slightly different society on the planet of origin and anybody they knew planetside has died many years before.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Copper
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Yes we have to leave the earth eventually.

The current administration has tried to stop this. It can't be stopped. I guess it remains to be seen if they have slowed the process or maybe speeded it because of the outrage they have caused.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
JBryan
Aug 10 2010, 05:51 AM
With NASA engaged in Muslim outreach colonization of other planets looks to be pretty far off.
C'mon, the US don't have to solve this all by ourselves. The Europeans and Asians can do that too. Having a good relationship with the Arabs and Mohamedans help, too. Afterall, they invented zero and contributed lots to mathematics and astronomy. They have it in them to do it again. Constantly living with the "us against them" mentaliy would simply increase probability of the destruction of Earth.
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Mikhailoh
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Not if we kill them first.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Copper
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There are two groups.

One group invented zero.

The other group invented zero, moved on to colonize Europe then moved on to the new world then began to move on to the moon and mars, then stopped to tell the first group what a nice job they did with zero.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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