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| If humans had the ability to travel to another planet
Posted: 7/4/2008 8:43:41 PM | I believe that if interstellar space travel became a reality, this question wouldn't be so significant at all. Lengthy debates over the morality of obtaining resources from this extrasolar planet would be a waste of time. There are many other planets within the galaxy that can provide the raw materials that we would most likely be using in the future. For example, there is more methane in Uranus (that never gets old), than we know what to freaking do with. It is highly unlikely that all planets within a system will be inhabited. Simply look to other planets for resources.
Would we interfere? I do not believe that we would. By the time we reach the point in our social evolution that allows us to get along with each other to create a deep space exploration program, we would've learned that interference would be of little benefit to us. Think of how much interference is involved with islanders in the South Pacific. People point to colonialism as an example of what we would do, but I completely disagree. The technological gap between imperialistic England, France, or the Dutch is considerably smaller than the technological gap that will exist between this unsophisticated species and us. They won't be worth bothering. It would be like sending a carrier to exploit some tribesmen in the heart of South America.
Eventually, interstellar travel would be so commonplace that people wouldn't think much about it the same way we don't think much about air travel, which would've seemed almost magical to many peoples of 200 years ago. I think some kind of conservationist regulation would develop forbidding interference of natural ecosystems. Hell, we haven't built an oil refinery on our own soil (U.S.) in years, because of similar environmentalist attitudes today. Not that I'm complaining :) | |
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| If humans had the ability to travel to another planet
Posted: 7/4/2008 11:19:32 PM | Once upon a time in a dark pound, a bunch of frogs wonder if there was other pounds, if so might there be other frogs? Mean while human beings flew over their pound in jet airliners and satellites orbit above. Right now, we're the frogs.
There's an infinite and I do mean infinite, numbers of highly advanced civilization watching us, contacting us for them is like trying to communicate with frogs, not very interesting. We're the one who has the low consciousness of the frogs, we're the one who is lacking the love to use our science and technologies to free our fellow human beings from hunger, diseases and all organized crime such as militarism.
Quite normal to understand, a civilization that can't master it's own aggressiveness will self destruct when it discover the means to get out of it's own solar system, it's just plain common sens. That's why we weren't invaded as Hollywood filming like to portrait. Any civilisation that has the mean to contact us are undoubtedly peaceful, but they won't do it, unless we pass that final test successfully. | |
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