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If You Had The Decision To Make To Perpetuate Human Life Elsewhere Would You

The better question is how are you going to decide who to take with you.

Hell, who is to say you shouldn't stay behind. Maybe someone else is better suited to take your place.
 
Sherman123 said:
Anyone who would choose 'no' is an evil individual. It's the most vile, murderous, and diabolical act a human being could commit. It's literal genocide.
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It would be genocide either way.
 
Sherman123 said:
No... no it wouldn't.
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Well, unless you can figure out how to move billions of people to another planet there is going to be a lot of people that die regardless.
 
Henrin said:
Well, unless you can figure out how to move billions of people to another planet there is going to be a lot of people that die regardless.
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The OP's hypothetical is premised on an ability to do precisely that.
 
Sherman123 said:
The OP's hypothetical is premised on an ability to do precisely that.
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So it's basically one of those movie like situations where there is enormous ships all over the planet and billions of people are supposed to board these ship to go to another planet. The shear volume of resources to make that possible is mind-boggling to say the least.
 
There's no evidence that humans can survive away from Earth's conditions indefinitely. It's not even about technology and terrestrial supply chains going into space, but the nature of our planet itself. There may be variables to our livelihood on this planet that we don't even realize yet due to our own ignorance.

Maybe if we try to experiment by starting small colonies on Mars or other bodies in the solar system, we can find out for sure if our survival needs are really that basic. We only just discovered recently that humans need sun to get vitamin D to moderate our hormone systems, calcium levels, and mood levels. For all we know the level of sunlight on a distant planet could be too dim for us to really thrive on, and humans would go crazy. That's just one example.
 
Northern Light said:
There's no evidence that humans can survive away from Earth's conditions indefinitely. It's not even about technology and terrestrial supply chains going into space, but the nature of our planet itself. There may be variables to our livelihood on this planet that we don't even realize yet due to our own ignorance.

Maybe if we try to experiment by starting small colonies on Mars or other bodies in the solar system, we can find out for sure if our survival needs are really that basic. We only just discovered recently that humans need sun to get vitamin D to moderate our hormone systems, calcium levels, and mood levels. For all we know the level of sunlight on a distant planet could be too dim for us to really thrive on, and humans would go crazy. That's just one example.
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There appear to be major problems involved in a manned mission to Mars.
Why we can't send humans to Mars yet, and how we'll fix that (Wired UK)
 
paddymcdougall said:
...If Indonesia (as an example) became unlivable due to rising sea leavels, let's say - would we support moving all the residents of Indonesia into one or more of our states - Utah, Colorado, Arizona, California all have lots of room?
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We wouldn't turned away boatloads of Jews escaping the Nazis and near certain death, so one can imagine how likely we are to help the dreaded Muslims.
 
rhinefire said:
Gathering in all of your experiences relating to the human race if the world was ending as it will some day and there was a method of transporting any or all of the human race to another planet and the decision to do so or not to do so rested solely on your shoulders what would you decide and why?
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Of course I would, I'm not a leftist.

I view humanity as basically good.
 
rhinefire said:
Gathering in all of your experiences relating to the human race if the world was ending as it will some day and there was a method of transporting any or all of the human race to another planet and the decision to do so or not to do so rested solely on your shoulders what would you decide and why?
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I think the better question is based on YOUR question alone and not made up scenarios why would the answer ever be no?
of course i do it
 
OldWorldOrder said:
It's an ark, not an arc.
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My Firefox spell-check does not tell me when I use the wrong word.

Why not call it a boat or a ship or a barge - but nooooo.

So any plans for taking people to live on another planet will always be viewed as a modern "Noah's Ark" or certainly that same basic idea.

Along with Noah was his three sons and their three wives, Genesis 7:13, and supposedly the tree wives were one as oriental and one black and one white, and thereby they repopulated the earth with all of humanity.

And truly if we are going to send people to another planet and if the other planet is barren (as like Mars is barren) then we will want to bring an assortment of animals to put onto that other planet.

All of mankind will never be transplanted anywhere, but still a large space craft could take a group of people to another world.
 
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