Humans on New Worlds?

By Robert C. Wall

There are other species out there. How are we going to react with these species, if we meet with them at all? Forget Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc. Those are children's show, and we need to begin adult, pragmatic thinking and action today to reach the stars and new worlds tomorrow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert C. Wall
• Release date: Oct 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301148745

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Humans on new worlds?

Published by Robert C Wall at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 Robert C. Wall

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Table of Contents.

Why do we need new worlds?

Three thoughts you have to agree to.

Search for habitable worlds.

Getting to these new worlds.

A working definition for Earth.

Vacant worlds.

A cursory inspection of a new world.

Settlers.

What if another civilization contacts us first?

Farm worlds.

Societal problems.

Occupied worlds.

Settling on vacant non- farm worlds.

Overall leadership of Earth dominated worlds.

What reality will probably be?

Traders.

Economics.

Contacting me.

Conclusion.

Humans on new worlds.

I have lots of questions, very few answers, and some suggestions.

Why do we need new worlds?

Why do humans want to go to new worlds? The biggest reason is ‘because it’s there.’ We’re always curious about what’s over the next hill.

Other reasons are important also. Our population explosion is a huge reason. All of the problems associated with more population, such as lack of resources, particularly fresh water. This lack of water also affects our food production. The population growth also demands more natural resources, such as timber, various metals, and energy sources. Energy is vitally important to the production of everything we need to survive, and transporting those items.

Arable land is important and growing scarcer every year. We’re wearing out our land with over-fertilizing and the use of pesticides. How much longer can the United States and Canada help feed other parts of the world? We should always remember that everything we have, we mine from the ground, or we grow on the ground.

Along with the growing population will come more endemic and epidemic diseases. These diseases won’t necessarily lower the population, but they certainly will be costly in the requirements for medical services and supplies, resources that we could use elsewhere, and disease-ravaged people are less productive.

Climate change is happening, and we’re not making progress in planning to one, reduce it, and two, planning how to survive under these new conditions. We’re going back to urban living because living there requires less energy to sustain us. However, it’s a very slow movement. Moreover, we’re not looking into the distant future of ten, twenty, and fifty years. Anybody can predict the future, but very few are planning the future. We need to make plans now for those years, and we need more and newer cities. Where will the steel come from to build those cities? Where will they get their water? How are they going to reduce their waste products and recycle their water?

Today we’re planning our economy on a continually growing population, but we’re not doing it the right way. We’re saying there will always be more people to use our products. Nevertheless, we’re not looking at where these people will be located, and how to get products to them, or where we will get the resources to make those products.

Three thoughts you have to agree to.

There are other intelligent life forms in the universe.

Humans are the deadliest, most aggressive, meanest, and smartest, sons of bitches in the Universe.

Your only purpose on Earth is survival and reproduction.

There are other intelligent life forms in the universe. They may not be the same as you and I, but they are there. It’s silly of us to think the permutations of chemistry for billions of years, under the conditions on Earth, preclude any other life forms on new worlds. We’re not alone, and they may not be the ways we imagine them.

The conditions existing on Earth at this time are the result of evolution over billions of years. Every type of living organism has its place in the environment. Humans didn’t pop into existence overnight; even though we’re here in just the last few seconds of geological time, it still took billions of years for all the conditions to come together for us to exist. All those conditions that evolved on Earth are available on new worlds.

Humans are the deadliest, most aggressive, meanest, and smartest, sons of bitches in the Universe. This has to be true, or we won’t survive. The inhabitants of new worlds believe they have the same characteristics. If we go out there with an olive branch, we will get it stuffed up our backsides. If we have the olive branch stuck in the barrel of a gun, we will survive.

Your only purpose on Earth is survival and reproduction. Forget your philosophy, attitude, religion, belief, viewpoint, opinion, etc. We’re animals, pure and simple. We’re no different from a cow or a zebra. We may be smarter than the other animals, but we’re still an animal, and animals have only two purposes, to survive and reproduce. There is neither heaven nor hell, and there is no reincarnation. You are, and then you aren’t.

Search for habitable worlds.

Our human body is the result of evolution over millions of years. We have to explore beyond our solar system. No world in our solar system is suitable for colonization. What should we be looking for in new worlds?

Gravity.

Gravity