Darwin and Intelligent life pros/cons

[Pressure Drop]

in your opinion looking for intelligent life on another planet may be a waste but not in mine or many others.

Although unlikely it could have potential benifits if you found an intelligent race willing to give us superior technologies etc... but the chance of this happening are very remote as finding intelligent life has proved fruitless so far and communicating with them could involve a time lag of 10's to 100's of years for nearby stars in our galaxy and realisticaly they are probably even further away.

I don't think they spend that much on it in reallity sepecialy if you compare it with something like USA's war bill for Iraq :P

our curent technology isn't capable off getting to a nearby planet out side our solar system let alone carry armed forces to enslave another intelligent race.


anyways why is space exploration mutualy exclusive to researching our close linked chimpanze and other apes?

Lets do both, and feel alright.

[Richard Creager]

Well at least I didn't go off on some politcal tangent in this thread!

You wanted to know why it was so important to get the hell in space, I just explained it to you.

[Theif of Time]

No, seriously. We're no less entitled to doing that than we are to having governments, or playing shuffleboard. You know why? Because the animals can't do anything about it.

Again, we're not entitled to anything. Entitlement is not the same as being able to take something, otherwise stealing would be legal (I can take something, therefore I'm entitled to it. I can rape someone, therefore I'm entitled to sex from them.)
You see?
We could do it. But we have no real need. Its essentially a waste, things can be done better ways.

[ConCor]

Hey guys we should rape the planet of all its resources because it's really easy to go and set up shop somewhere else so we can always just move our entire race to another planet if we're in a tight spot right?

[Richard Creager]

It's not limited to race, it is simply having a unified population. No one is going to follow someone to another planet if they don't like whoever is leading it. When you try to achieve the same thing here, that is when race is brought into the issue, but this is only because it has been the case of the past. You need to forget race being the mission because it isn't.

[Theif of Time]

Hey guys we should rape the planet of all its resources because it's really easy to go and set up shop somewhere else so we can always just move our entire race to another planet if we're in a tight spot right?

Concor gets it.
Rape on, guys. Don't forget to pillage, and burn it all afterwards (remember, Rape, burn, pillage. In that order.)
EDIT: Shit, no its Rape, Pillage, Burn. Damn.
EDIT#2: Don't mind me swearing... Fuck, I did it again. Shit ass fuck damn.