Yes, the age of America may be coming to an end.

Canada shall take over the world and beyond!!!

Hurraayy for CANADA!!!

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are you? all I see is you throwing their mistakes in their face to try and make them seem like idiots.

but, they are idiots. didn't you read any of the shit they just said? i mean, fuck, if youre going to make a thread about earth like planets, at least read a sentence or two about it before you try and make a discussion about it.

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Shit, it's feasible to terraform mars right now. If we put the time and money into it I am certain it could be done. Though we have much more urgent situations to deal with than planet migration.

Arguably we're more likely to colonise the more urgent the other situations are. Need somewhere to run to.

That and we all know that there would be a rather large fight over who controls what on mars. If it was up to me I would put an american flag on it and claim it's all ours, then building a laser grid on mars and the moon, so if anyone fucks with earth america we can orbital/outer space-bombard them with lasers or some crazy shit. Forcing them to submit to americas ridiculous capitalist demands for the next hundred years at least, while we figure out long distance travel for humans. When that rolls around we'd have an extremely large leg up over the competition.

But I've always fantasized about having an american death moon base/ doom fortress on the moon.
That'd be so cool, because I am not among the masses who honestly think we're the good guys, you know?

Totally annexed Venus for the British Empire, yo. Also Alpha Centuri.



I'd quite like to see Mars terraformed. Not so that we could colonise it - to prove that we're capable of creating the desired climate artificially. There's a proposed solution to global warming which involves pumping gasses into the stratosphere but it won't happen because the idea of polluting to counter pollution is too taboo. If we can show that it works somewhere people don't care about then maybe we can do it here.

Now, terraforming Venus would be spectacular. That place is like, literally Hell.

It would be interesting if one day we are capable of terraforming planets. I wonder how it will segregate people, for instance, the wealthy are the ones in the distant planets while the rest remain in old earth. However, that is the work for the future or science fiction.

Asteroid mining is a realistic possibility currently. A project that started this year from "Planetary Resources" is actually moving forward with the plan and the only major issue is money. If this becomes successful, it can contribute to the larger goal.

but rich people NEED poor people, who else will do all their minuscule tasks?

Robots....

self maintaining robots?

The only way we can do any of this is if we fund the science community instead of cutting the budget everytime a country needs to save cash...If you havent noticed space is the last thing a country worries about except during the space race... The only way can get to anyother planet beyond our solar system alive is to either go at a much greater speed than Voyager is right now or a worm hole... Now when we can travel past our star to others will be the greatest achievement the human race will ever achieve because we havent just left our planet to walk on a moon, we left our star to a distant one...and that can be possible to achieve at anytime because it only takes one person to come up with the equation and another person to build something to use the equation... but if your really interested in finding a planet with life (for food or just an alien to share knowledge with) look up the drake equation and its a hard/easy equation to use...its mostly variables so no answer can be right or wrong...my teacher for astronomy showed us how he used it to make it so there is no life in our galaxy then he did the reverse and showed us the max number of planets with life (its a big number but its not everystar because only stars like ours can support life which is the current theory of life)

We don't know worm holes are a way to travel across the universe, that's mostly science fiction.

Also, saying "it only takes one person to come up with the equation and another person to build something to use the equation" is a gross oversimplification of the sort of engineering and scientific feats necessary for interstellar travel. If it was that easy, we would have done it already

It only takes one person to eat an entire blue whale!

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but if your really interested in finding a planet with life (for food or just an alien to share knowledge with)

i dont think food is going to be the concern, considering we have no idea what kind of food there would even be, let alone what kind of effects it would have on us.

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Also, saying "it only takes one person to come up with the equation and another person to build something to use the equation" is a gross oversimplification of the sort of engineering and scientific feats necessary for interstellar travel. If it was that easy, we would have done it already

Its just a phrase...and the equation could be made by one person but building a machine to utilize the equation would take hundreds of people

I like how the first undisputed post in this thread is my post, based almost purely on speculation.

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America is falling behind in the world, this country is falling apart, I don't think they'd be capable of maintaining an entire planet.

You assume too much sir, I merely suggest we put roots in that can't be pulled. We focus on sustaining it when the time actually arises to do so, until then the threat of space bombardment should be more than enough to help tilt things in our favor. On top of that we can threaten to shoot down any launches they attempt to shoot into space. Like America has any problem with slowing down our scientific progress? Nigga please, we could make an engine waaaaaaay more economical than the ones we use, but that don't make cash yah hear?

I've heard that there has been cuts for NASA's budget. http://io9.com/5885042/how-will-the-white-houses-brutal-budget-cuts-affect-nasa

Interesting video to watch