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zacaron

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my question to you people at the escapist is how long will it take to colonies the moon, mars another galaxy... how long until we discover another alien race?

searched forums and could not find it sorry if it has been done.
 

super_smash_jesus

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the answer is never.

I am not one to believe that there is any benefit to colonizing anything that does not harbour life, and I believe the whole of space to be void of life except for our delightful little planet.
 

Eddbot

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not to be a downer, but that's so far off we don't really have to think about it...

edit, beaten to the negativity by that other guy...
 

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Well, we've already started working on joint coverings for machines on the moon t prevent the buildup of microscopic glass shards present in moon dust, so that may not be too far away. As for discovering other races, who knows? It could happen tomorrow, or it could never happen.
 

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super_smash_jesus said:
the answer is never.

I am not one to believe that there is any benefit to colonizing anything that does not harbour life, and I believe the whole of space to be void of life except for our delightful little planet.
I find it hard to believe that this one planet is the only one in the entire damned universe that contains life, the universe is (supposedly) infinite so there must be at least some life out there.
 

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I can't see it happening anytime soon. Everyone is spending to much money on war and fixing the planet. I heard they were making a special plane that could go into space for a short time but it's bloody expensive!
 

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TJ rock 101 said:
super_smash_jesus said:
the answer is never.

I am not one to believe that there is any benefit to colonizing anything that does not harbour life, and I believe the whole of space to be void of life except for our delightful little planet.
I find it hard to believe that this one planet is the only one in the entire damned universe that contains life, the universe is (supposedly) infinite so there must be at least some life out there.
But if you think of how small the actual likelihood that even this planet was able to maintain life, it shows just how small the likelihood of the exact same thing happening elsewhere. I will not put it past there being some "type" of life out there in the quantities of space, but it will most likely be something that resembles bacteria or viruses.

Intelligent life, is another thing, and I highly doubt that we will ever see another race, considering how evolution works. The actual steps towards having intelligence, throughout the evolutionary process, is so random(random in the sense of mutation, not selection), and taking even one step out, will likely not yield the same results as we have now. So life, maybe, intelligent life, big negatory.
 

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super_smash_jesus said:
the answer is never.

I am not one to believe that there is any benefit to colonizing anything that does not harbour life, and I believe the whole of space to be void of life except for our delightful little planet.
At what point do you think that man will destroy the earth of it's resources?
 

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We've already met with alien races.... on the moon!

There are several colonies of people living up there, in the low G environment, as voluntary hosts for a species of alien symbiots. Up there, they live, free of the petty prejudices that consume mankind down here. They live, they train, they develop and they breed. They wait together, these xenomen, biding their time, awaiting our eventual armageddon. Then they will return. God help those who are left when this happens.
 

Xpwn3ntial

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Moon colonies, 75-100 years. Mars? 100-150. Interstellar? 400 years at least. We'd need some sort of teleporter or something to take us to the nearest star in one lifetime. It would be about that time we find a habitable world to find alien life. Let's hope they won't hate us.

EDIT: We're likely to never go to another galaxy. The distances are just too great.
 

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super_smash_jesus said:
the answer is never.

I am not one to believe that there is any benefit to colonizing anything that does not harbour life, and I believe the whole of space to be void of life except for our delightful little planet.
It's hardly unlikely for other planets to have resources we could use for fuel etc, and mining would be a very valid reason to colonize them, however far off such a feat may be.
 

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I personally think that we will NEVER find Aliens. I believe that somewhere in the vastness of space they have to be lurking. But who knows. odds were against humans, we turned out fine. (coughs)
 

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The better question is when will a nation, or private company, make a space elevator? Because that is cheaper than repeatedly launching rockets up into space. The nations of the earth will not colonize the moon until we build one of those. Also there's the problem of who gets to colonize what. America claimed the moon, but does that really make it theirs? Until we answer questions like those space colonization is impossible.
 

zacaron

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Honestly I think who ever gets enough atmosphere for combustion to work on the moon can claim it.
or if we build something that can shoot projectiles without combustion.
 

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who's to say that the other planets don't harbor life? Just because they may not be hospitable to our needs doesn't mean that there's nothing that has adapted for it's use.
 

Xpwn3ntial

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If we run into aliens, let's hope they aren't some mindless consuming juggernaut like the Flood or the Tyranids. That would suck.
 

Xpwn3ntial

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"The better question is when will a nation, or private company, make a space elevator? Because that is cheaper than repeatedly launching rockets up into space. The nations of the earth will not colonize the moon until we build one of those. Also there's the problem of who gets to colonize what. America claimed the moon, but does that really make it theirs? Until we answer questions like those space colonization is impossible."

Actually, international space laws (of which there are only three to my knowledge), it's illegal for anyone, public or private, to own extraterrestrial territory. The US does not own the Moon.
 

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Dec 21, 2012 the aliens are gonna come back and take us back home. How long it takes to get there is anybodies guess. Where that actually is raises more questions.
So we will never get to do it on our own.