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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by M_Grey on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:19PM (#12592258)
Lets survive the next few hundred years a species first, eh? We have a long way to go to make that happen, and a big part of it definitely involves mastering travel around and mining of our solar system. It probably doesn't involve the expense and resources of major colonization efforts though, barring truly enormous breakthroughs in materials science, energy production and storage.

Lets focus on that, since without those factors a billion years will just find the raccoons or squid that replaced us facing the same problem.

Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by JBReefer on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:37PM (#12594798)
You're underestimating humanity. You're talking about a species that walked from Ethiopia to Tierra Del Fuego, and then a blink of time later landed on the Moon. We're the top predator in the planet, and we got there in less than 20,000 years.

We'll be fine.

Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by M_Grey on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:10PM (#12594917)
That attitude is an enormous part of why we won't be fine, and haven't been for a while