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Re:Calico, Google’s Anti-Aging Company, Announces New Resear... by astazangasta on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:09AM (#8268674)
What resources? There's not much useful water out there, let alone breathable air, carbon, organic matter, living things, ecosystems. All of those crucial resources are here.

Besides, if we don't get things straight on this planet, we'll never be able to survive long enough to find another one.

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Re:Calico, Google’s Anti-Aging Company, Announces New Resear... by lotsofmangos on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:22AM (#8268763)
What resources?

http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/

Besides, if we don't get things straight on this planet, we'll never be able to survive long enough to find another one.

Survival is an argument for getting a lot of people living off planet, not an argument for not doing so. We can try and create utopias as much as we like, but that is not going to help very much when we get hit by a big rock.

Also, personally I suspect that the real advance is not going to be in settling other planets, but building habitats out of asteroids.

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Re:Calico, Google’s Anti-Aging Company, Announces New Resear... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:11AM (#8268687)
Depends where you go. Lots of all that in the right places. Saturn's rings and moons; water is on the moon and on Mars; we can make what we don't find if we have enough energy.
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