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The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space

SpaceExploration Monday, April 11, 2005 . This is a SciScoop post by Drog

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Why humans in space? The Space Review has the top three reasons: 3. To work. 2. To live. 1. To survive. ‘To work’ means doing stuff in space: research, explore, visit, etc. ‘To live’ means to have humans/life beyond Earth in colonies/settlements. ‘To survive’ means that putting humans/life beyond Earth is a very Good Thing in case a very Bad Thing happens to humans/life on Earth.


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Sobisch

April 12th, 2005 at 5:21 am

there are huge problems to deal with here on earth, to avoid ‘a very Bad Thing happens to humans/life on Earth’

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T. Sobisch
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GRLCowan

April 13th, 2005 at 9:47 am

Under the “research” heading, it’s hard to construct a particle collider a million km in circumference on Earth. Can’t even easily run macroscopic objects into each other at a 1200-km/s closing speed, which is bone-easy … well maybe not bone easy, they might miss … but the speed is free … if you drop them into Sun-grazing orbits.

— Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
how individual mobility (on Earth’s surface) gains nuclear cachet

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