longfenglim wrote:
I am not going to participate in a collosal waste of money that would have been better invested in improving life here on earth. It is not that it wouldn't be interesting to go off into space and live out your grade-school fantasies of colonising new planets, just that I don't see how your grade-school fantasy should take priority to, say, feeding the famish, improving the education system in this impoverished country, etc. etc.
Yes, but considering majority of the human race does not register the fact that we have a growing overpopulation problem on this planet, which is causing global warming, resource shortages, and environmental destruction. Our governments are running Ponzi scheme economics aside from the U.S.'s failing to invest in education that actually educates both of which could possibly help curb the above problem. You might want to use your technological know how to create a system which might succeed on another planet. But again that's very naive as well because corporations are the future of space exploration and colonization, not governments (except possibly China and possibly JAXA, they may be corporate now though). So we might be looking at James Cameron's "Aliens" or O'Bannon's "Total Recall" description of corporate colonization.
Maybe some international guidelines for planetary colonization should be written and agreed upon by the world, not the U.N., corporations, or governments who are paid to bid for the corporations (like the U.S.) before colonization is started.
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Mars-One, would you rather watch or volunteer if that was an option? 
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