future Interplanetary Civilization discussion.

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Sorry Narf, I am really depressed right now. I should have said that it is not going to happen because we will never colonize another planet. Even if we did, the colony would fail, or just be a military science outpost.

Secondly if the utter complete unlikelyhood that we did colonize another planet, it would go much like inter nation relations go now. So again, it simply is not worth it.

Yep, maybe really you have not your best day, or maybe I'm too optimistic... but I'm pretty sure that if the mankind doesn't destroy himself before this, our home system will be colonized and even some planets terraformed (Mars, Venus as example). Of course that think it will not happen soon (a millennium?).
But colonize beyond our home system... think the probabilities are not so good.

Originally posted by Atrocities:

Secondly if the utter complete unlikelyhood that we did colonize another planet, it would go much like inter nation relations go now. So again, it simply is not worth it.

Well, I would support this view.