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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wars are always about limited resources. Religion, politics, beliefs, philosophies, laws, traditions all boils down to getting a bigger share of the pie for your side. Ironically, space exploration might make wars obsolete for a while. There's so much real estate on other planets that you can simply bugger off if you don't like your neighbours.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if colonising other planets is easy, which there is no reason to believe it will be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We just don't have the technology to massively change a planets ecosystem to be habitable and the amount of resources to build a life dome is just absurd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's nice to go outside sometimes but I don't do it often. Worst bit would be some luxuries. Mostly food variety and ingredients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We don't need full on domes; pressurized buildings would be enough. But if we can populate other planets we can populate the unpopulated parts of Earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With the current resources we have I feel it would be prudent to stay underground rather than build mega structures on ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no other habitable planet in our system (requiring heavy life support is not sustainable), and even the closest inhabitable exoplanet is probably out of reach for at least the next millennium.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam 1 points 1 year ago

Don't wanna die in war? Well it is your responsibility, random infantryman, to establish diplomatic relations then