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For the next 300-500 years, yes. But there is plenty of things to do, stuff to build and room to expand within a light-day from Sun.




No other place is habitable within a light day of the sun.

A good argument for making sure our planet stays habitable. Caring about the environment isn't just for hippies anymore!

That is it. When you become very aware of just how amazingly far away everything else is, fighting over a speak of dust and the only home we have seems absolutely ridiculous.

A great long form video on this is "Shouting at stars : A history of interstellar messages". It really highlights just how empty it all is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI5WpK2sgg


You can't stop fighting the ones who claim the speck of dust (or a pale blue dot) is a flat disk.

Works up until the earth becomes uninhabitable in 600M years, before then humans are going to need to find and colonize a different planet.

If mankind exists in 1000 years time and hasn’t regressed then we’ll be able to build fusion powered self sustaining asteroids. Those can be used as airships to colonise every system in the Milky Way in a few million years.

600M years is enough time for Earth to try two or three attempts at intelegence, with full blown fossil fuel replenishment cycles. It won’t be humans - whether we leave for the stars tomorrow or blow ourselves to bits we’ll have evolved to something unrecognisable by then, but there’s very few things which could end life on earth in the next 200 million years (mainly very large out of system asteroids/rogue planets)


No rush then, modern humans aren't even 1m years old...

Being hippie worked in the 1960ies, a crowd with a similar mindset fared much worse in 1930ies Paris.

ISS is one such place.

My understanding is that ISS is not self-sustaining even in principle. It consistently needs to be resupplied with water and breathable air as the station continuously leaks it. These resupplies happen about once every month or two. This article goes into quite a few details about what would be needed for actual self-sustainable human space exploration and it looks like there's quite a few engineering challenges to work out.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/space-technologies/arti...


Not only that but they have to routinely boost its orbital velocity as there is still a little atmospheric drag at the height.



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