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Re:Stephen Hawking: Human Survival Depends on Space Exploration by PedroCandeias on Saturday November 19, 2011 @05:36PM (#3256511)
Right now I'm sitting in Portugal, Europe, typing this on a laptop which was designed in America and manufactured in China. And we're not at war with one another at the moment. I believe there may have been a few consequences to exploration that were far nicer than war, trade chief among them.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: Human Survival Depends on Space Exploration by koolkelso on Sunday November 20, 2011 @02:57AM (#3257577)
Not only that, if we've become advanced enough to finally decide we should genuinely spend our efforts on exploring space, by then perhaps a humanistic consciousness could have emerged rendering war irrelevant.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: Human Survival Depends on Space Exploration by Peaker on Sunday November 20, 2011 @12:29PM (#3258523)
Sure, there are times of peace, and there are times of war.

But history tells us there likely will be wars.

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