Opinion Polls
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@321boom (View Post)
*you are shot by a chimpanzee*
Lol, but seriously, in the future, like in 100000 years, maybe we will let some animals vote....
I hope. (So that otter over there doesn't nuke me!)
NEW POLLS:
Will we fix climate change in time?
Should intelligent animals vote?
When will we contact aliens? -
@321boom (View Post)
Exploring/Colonizing space at this time, and into the foreseeable future, makes no economic sense.
That said, space is largely unknown and mostly unexplored. Given the natural curiosity of humans; we should all be driving, every single one of us, to explore what's out there. Be it to explore what's under your bed, or to explore what's under the ice sheets of Europa. It makes no sense financially to explore space but personally I think failing to explore, to be curious, is failing to be human.
Colonizing space is going to be a byproduct of exploration, so I see both as essentially the same thing. -
@devast8a (View Post)
There are plenty of resources in space. All we need are faster spaceships to travel quickly around the solar system.
@ABSOLUTELYeverybody
http://bigthink.com/ideas/38364 -
@BudCharles (View Post)
Yes, but it's not economically sane to go out to space for resources (as of yet). -
@BudCharles (View Post)
Animals should vote considering that humans are technically animals. Also it @shroom207 (View Post)
would be funny to have ducks vote. -
@devast8a (View Post)
As of YET. But it would be useful when we run out of accessible resources here on Earth.
@code1949 (View Post)
Yeah lol. But we think porpoises have intelligent language. (You did watch the Big Think video right? http://bigthink.com/ideas/38364) -
@BudCharles (View Post)
What would the space-ships be powered by? And how would people survive the trip? -
@code1949 (View Post)
They would probably be robotic probes for the next 50 years. But power: Nuclear Plasma, Methane and/or Solar (Hybrid rockets lol).
We would get to Mars with plasma power in 1 month. Will normal rockets it would take years.
So it's easy to survive trips to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn by the end of the century. But further out we have problems. It would take 20 years to get to Uranus.
EDIT: OMFG I checked the results, carbon tax has a lot of "Strongly Yes" votes. -
@BudCharles (View Post)
Do you mean you're sending robotic probes or do you mean turning people into robotic probes?
