posted by ptown_trojans_1

Yes, if I was betting money I would say nothing as it’s not likely in our lifetimes. Or even the next couple hundred years. But it’s gonna happen eventually.

posted by justincredible

There you go. Humanity has to become a multiplanetary species or it will go extinct eventually.

That is more likely in my view that an extinction event.

posted by justincredible

There you go. Humanity has to become a multiplanetary species or it will go extinct eventually.

Hope no one's expecting our country to be the leader in that. It's pretty hard to get shit together enough to expand to other planets when we're a people who regularly go into histrionics whenever someone with different political/world views has the goddamn audacity to voice an opinion!

posted by Heretic

Hope no one's expecting our country to be the leader in that. It's pretty hard to get shit together enough to expand to other planets when we're a people who regularly go into histrionics whenever someone with different political/world views has the goddamn audacity to voice an opinion!

Private sector is likely our only hope.