The_Lich_King wrote:We wouldn't be able to hide on other planets if our planet was about to die unless we could find a way to terriform them, and even then if our sun blew up those planets wouldn't be safe. We would need to be able to travel to other stars nearby such as the Alpha Centauri Star or the Keppler Systems and those are roughly 5 light years away which would take us probably roughly 50,000 years to travel to with current space tech. You said that people are more interested in space because of survival but if they really were we would all give Nasa and AIA and SpaceX more money and not cutting their budgets. I think the real reason there is alot less interest in the Oceans is because its not new people have been studying them for centuries and space is alot more fresh and Unknown.
That's why we're researching, to overcome those problems. You can't just say something is impossible without knowing what we will find in the future.
I think people aren't interested in space because of survival, most people aren't even interested in space at all and definitely not in oceans. They just want to live their lives. Some scientists are interested in humanity's survival though and that's all we need. As for the budget issue - politics and government aren't really representing a lot of people I'd say.
The_Lich_King wrote:EDIT: The keppler systems are actually alot farther away than i though roughly 500 light years so Alpha Centauri would be our best option and i did some calculations it would actually take us roughly 816,000 years to get to alpha centauri in our fastest rocket so the idea of space travel is more a hypothesis than anything.
I don't know what you expect. Even speed of light wouldn't be sufficient. We need to find other ways to exploit the universe and that will take work. Only because we can't do it now doesn't mean we won't be able to do it at all.
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