We are the pinnacle of the phenomenon known as "life."

Billions of years of evolution has lead to humans which are undoubtedly the alpha species.

Should we not attempt to further science and technology to help proliferate ourselves throughout the universe?

I think it is too risky to stay on one planet; we are too valuable from a scientific perspective.

I think a couple people missed the memo chief.

Thread title is misleading but i 100% agree with everything you said.

Human life is precious and it is gruesome to think that the entire species has the potential to go extinct based on the actions of some few elites.

The next step in human progression is space, arguably even more important than medical research. However, this view is not shared by the ruling elites.

Time to start building vehicles capable of carrying the rich to other planets

Obviously the rich because the intelligent will be too poor to pay for a ticket.

The first to traverse the cosmos will be scientists not businessmen

why so we can go to another planet and destroy that environment and extinct 100's of species

yep and there is no real reason we shouldn't. better to spread the disease wide than keep it contained to rot the host to the core.

It is impossible to "destroy" a planet or it's environment with our current technology. All we can do is move resources from one part of a planet to another part of the same planet.

Why does it matter if we make other species go extinct? We are the epitome of successful evolution, and thus the superior of all other species.

This post was edited by PixileDust on Oct 30 2014 07:56pm

How about because the integrity of eco systems is just as important for our benefit as it is of other species? Our endless squandering of resources and lack of sustainability is putting a lot at risk, of course you have the climate argument as well but that is a whole other subject.

There would be likely no hurry to explore space if we could manage what we have here, which by all accounts is an exceptional landscape beyond belief, given how hard it likely is to find anything even closely similar in the universe.

How far is the technology away, for deep space travel, do we think? Few hundred years?

By the way what does us from a scientific perspective suppose to mean? Who is caring exactly? We need to preserve ourselves for science?

This post was edited by Psychonautica on Oct 31 2014 02:05am