Within 400 light years, assuming a constant density, we are talking about 25,000 G-stars and within 1,200 light years over a million. Pretty much all of these stars are bound to have rocky planets and many likely rocky planets in the habitable zone.
Why are we wasting 2 trillion on the military per year when we could be spending 2 trillion on researching and building interstellar spaceships?
Adam Richardson
well get on it von braun
Angel Fisher
Space isn't real. Hollow earth is tho.
Ayden Allen
Sometimes I hate Sup Forums. Legitimate dicscussions are shot down with people not wanting to engage in discussion.
Joseph Williams
The better question is why are we spending 2 trillion on the entertainment industry per year to play pretend when we could be doing things for real.
Jonathan Ross
Because of control. It's hard to create a world government with a (((political elite))) when you have the ability to colonize space.
Gabriel Gutierrez
>the next 100 years of human endeavor will be spent mostly in race wars rather than on creating a space empire because we let the problem fester so long
Daniel Long
discussions of what, convincing the USA to disarm every day so you can keep your caliphate going? go to plebbit, they might listen.
Asher Barnes
If only there was a political movement dedicated to a cooperative corporate and international effort to colonize space... We should start with the Moon.
Asher Johnson
You really think the elites don't want us to colonize space?
I don't think this is true. Race wars aren't causing military spending.
Shitposter
Good idea. Better idea would be competition.
Landon Nelson
If only we had conclusive proof of aliens out there. (((They))) would be tripping over themselves bankrupting nations to fund a space program in order to gain their shiny alien beads.
Andrew Green
If we were to shift the military applications to the space environment, we would inevitably working on novel propulsion and delivery systems.
Perhaps shifting the military focus to the stars would be a good idea. It would also help if our pioneers were to run into anything out there.
Owen Powell
>Why are we wasting 2 trillion on the military per year when we could be spending 2 trillion on researching and building interstellar spaceships?
Because your country, and the other European empires sperged out a hundred years ago. They just had to use their fucking gay armies on each other instead of pacifying the medieval barbarians of the world for a few generations.
Instead we've spent those generations cleaning that pile of shit up, learning to hate our own culture, and letting the uncivilized world run amok.
Hopefully it can be brought back under control within this century, but I honestly doubt it.
Joseph Wood
Can't spend money on useless things like space exploration when Europe exists to feed infinity niggers, goy.
Christian Martinez
>believing kike lies >current year
Carter Peterson
>hurr durr kikes are behind everything on earth
Connor Ramirez
>You really think the elites don't want us to colonize space? Of course they do, but they want control over all of us first. It's harder to gain control when you've got a dozen colonies, light years apart.
Jeremiah Nelson
Would automatically be competitive over time. But we need something like the British or Dutch East India company: a common fund, capitalized by thousands of companies and national actors, to spur investment in mining and energy production on the Moon. Then let various corps start competing for contracts. Infrastructure needs to be in place first, because no one organization can afford the trillions necessary to get the ball rolling.
Josiah Sullivan
This.
And we break their power by forcing their hand. A global movement for space colonization can force the elites to choose: cooperate or dominate. If they choose the latter, the revolution that follows will make the French and Bolshevik revolutions look like minor disagreements among friends.
We don't have to fight WWIII to reach a new, space-faring age. But if we don't take the steps necessary to begin the colonization process, then WWIII and IV are inevitable.
Blake Richardson
>Implying space travel matters We have to break through the veil that separates the earth from the heavens, not get lost in it.
Evan Richardson
Already on it.
Gavin Fisher
>We have to break through the veil that separates the earth from the heavens, not get lost in it.
did that sound insightful in your head as you were typing it?
Julian White
The Orion ship in your pic even if it could be built would take over 1000 years to get to the nearest star.