Answer to Ian Wollard Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Answer to Ian Wollard
# 489 byrehaulku@... on Jan. 14, 2001, 9:10 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Thank you for your reply.
Subjects in order of appearances:
there is a nuance: After 1945 atom bombs, collective unconcsious
oriented to the space because life on the earth potentially finished.
And there was Cold War. That is why space exploration competitively
continued till 1990's. Europe and Japan were not successful at
this
race. To me reason is that their immediate culture is not interested
in space or they are immanently closed to the Other concept.
I guess end of human being on the Earth will come at the year of 3000
(we have one millenium). This won't be an exact end. Even though
the
planet gets into the pieces somenone will survive.
Population problem has another perspective than yours. In the history
this is fourth gigantical increase of global population. The last one
will stop around 2130's. It is conceptually mutually exclusive
than
space settlenment during this period (till 3000). It depends on birth
control. I don't hope there will be Third World War. We can
imagine
that population will osilate in the interval of 15-20 billions for
many centuries.
I am not sure about money. Till today space exploration has negative
sum at the balance sheet for billions of dollars. That is why
humanists are against gong to the space. I don't mind about
humanistic behavior.
The last and added value subject:
What will happen to man in the space? We have only 500 examples. I am
not sure whether it is enough. The moon base and permanent space
station is certain to exist. (Low or) Non-gravity is still unsolved
problem.
Rest of discussion for the next steps.