Professional-Song216 t1_ircs46e wrote on October 7, 2022 at 1:30 AM

Reply to comment by dreamedio in We are in the midst of the biggest technological revolution in history and people have no idea by DriftingKing

Yea but what problems does space exploration solve?

TheSingulatarian t1_irdauu4 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 4:13 AM

Resource scarcity.

Professional-Song216 t1_irdb7y5 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 4:17 AM

I can understand that but what resource are we immediately running out of now?

ttrrraway t1_ire22fp wrote on October 7, 2022 at 10:43 AM

I think that somehow they are right, if we had already terraformed Mars for example, we could have an overabundance of food and water, and we'd be able to split the pollution in different planets, solving global warming and other problems.

Similarly, there are planets and asteroids with enormous amounts of gold and other metals.

So, yes, in a sense, becoming an interplanetary species could have solved lots of issues.

But, on the other hand, becoming an interplanetary species is a much harder and more expensive task. Creating super intelligent AI appears simpler at first glance, and will also take us to space eventually.

Professional-Song216 t1_ire2anc wrote on October 7, 2022 at 10:46 AM

I see where you are coming from and I agree with your last statement. I’m of the opinion that issues like energy, disease and intelligence should be solved here before we can reasonably think about explore the stars

langolier27 t1_ird6uzp wrote on October 7, 2022 at 3:36 AM

Pretty much all of them.

Professional-Song216 t1_ird8lgx wrote on October 7, 2022 at 3:51 AM

How? We can hardly go anywhere at the moment. Name 3 solid problems it would solve that can’t be solved otherwise.

langolier27 t1_irdbmnw wrote on October 7, 2022 at 4:22 AM

If we became a multi-planetary species it would solve literally every problem. One of the main reasons for pursuing AGI is to help us advance with space exploration.