Charting the High Frontier of Space | Ed Lu

Aujourd’hui, de nouvelles frontières nous appellent – la Lune, Mars et au-delà. L’Homme continuera toujours d’explorer, non par nécessité pour sa survie, mais parce qu’il est habité par ce besoin de comprendre quelle est sa place dans l’Univers.

Another motivation was that colonizing other planets would help ensure the survival of human civilization and consciousness in case something happened to our fragile planet.

Human civilization, he felt, will soon strain the resources of our small planet. That will confront us with a choice: accept static growth or expand to places beyond Earth. “I don’t think stasis is compatible with liberty,” he says. “We can fix that problem in exactly one way: by moving out into the solar system.”