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[QUOTE]Originally posted by targetemployee: [QB] OntoMars, [b]100,000 YA[/b] [i]Homo Sapiens Sapiens[/i] appear. [b]45,000 YA[/b] Our species has migrated out of Africa into Asia and Europe. I do believe that we were settling Australia as well. This is nearly 55,000 years of history when our ancestors for the most part decided to remain in Africa. Why did they elect to migrate from their homeland? The climate was undergoing change. [b]7,000 YA[/b] First civilizations emerge in the 'Old World'. [b]500 YA[/b] The civilizations of the 'Old World' initiate first contact with the natives of the 'New World'. I think these two examples reflect a commonality in our species. We take our sweet time in leaving a place. Space exploration is tentative in our current period. It is dependent on the government's good graces. What will change the nature of space exploration? Climatological or economical changes in the status quo. I am not talking minor changes. I am talking severe ass-whooping changes. I don't forsee either occuring for the short term. Will humans colonize space? Sure. It just won't be the Americans who will do the colonizing. The political-social entity which will do this act doesn't exist and won't exist for a very long period of time. I am talking hundreds or even thousands of years here. I tend to view our Moon forays as akin to the Viking explorations of the 'Old World' in the 900's CE. They explored a very small portion of the North American coast and left archaeological records of their forays. When humans colonize space, the Moon missions will seem as distant to them as the Viking missions were to the Europeans who set sail in the 1500's. (Note the time difference between the 900's and the 1500's.) The astronauts who visited the Moon have left valuable archaeological records of the Apollo era and of American involvement in the first explorations of space. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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