modest Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 May i ask where the fasination comes to everyone to live on a planet without the resources for human beings to survive?It's an annoying little tendency that became part of our genetic makeup... I'd imagine quite a long time ago. Imagine your typical prehistoric protohuman hanging out in the African savanna. He's with 3 or 4 of his fellow simpletons in a large tree perhaps wasting the day away practicing how to hit things with rocks. It's a good tree—lots of fruit, good location, fantastic view, everything you'd want in a tree. But, our restless forefather notices another tree a couple hundred meters away. He gets it in his mind that he's going to that other tree. That may not seem like a big deal, but you have to remember the wide open African savanna is chuck full of things that are just waiting for a tasty protohuman to come its way. In a game of rochambeau, sabertooth beats rock So, our idiot forefather jumps out of a perfectly good home and runs buck-naked and screaming across a deadly minefield of things that want to eat him. And, maybe he makes it. It may not be that hospitable of a tree—it might have a beehive and the bees keep stinging him. But, the point being, that night there's a brush fire that destroys the first tree and everyone in it leaving one lonely bee-stung survivor, and he ends up having kids who also might have the same tendency. A million years later we're programmed to think the grass might be a little greener on the other side of the fence. We colonize harsh wilderness for the promise of things to come. We see a point of light moving across the sky and think: I'd like to live there. Who knows, maybe one day an asteroid vaporizes the surface of the earth, or maybe a mad scientist sets off his doomsday device, or maybe a Romulan comes back in time and drops some red matter down to the earth's core—we can only hope some idiots took the chance of making a home off-world. It could end up being that our love for exploration and colonization saves us :Glasses: ~modest freeztar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse Now Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 What he said. LOL at this line... So, our idiot forefather jumps out of a perfectly good home and runs buck-naked and screaming across a deadly minefield of things that want to eat him. Very... poetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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