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The Race to Colonize Space
IEET ^ | 04/23/12 | Ytasha L. Womack

Posted on 04/23/2012 4:41:20 PM PDT by KevinDavis

A few days shy of the US announcing its grand plan for space tourism in 2014, I was asked to present at Ohio State University’s Transcending Race Conference. My charge was to explore the distant, very far off possibility of how race would evolve with space colonization.

What began as entirely speculative soon morphed into a cannon of likely concerns - quickly flipped from the fantasy to a very real reality.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: space

1 posted on 04/23/2012 4:41:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 04/23/2012 4:42:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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How come I can only think of this verse from Obadiah, when it comes to stuff like this . . . ?
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

— Obadiah 1:4
Some translations render “exalt thyself” as “fly high”.
3 posted on 04/23/2012 4:45:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: KevinDavis

Hypothetical race relations in hypothetical space exploration. I mean really.....


4 posted on 04/23/2012 4:46:46 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: KevinDavis

Very few have read past the headline including the comments at the site. They all think is is about the space race.


5 posted on 04/23/2012 4:49:33 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
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To: Olog-hai
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. — Obadiah 1:4\

Wow.

I figure war is what will spur space colonization. War pretty much spurs all technology.

6 posted on 04/23/2012 4:53:15 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent * By the way, Ted, voting for Romney is voting stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai

I meant to say “major leaps” in technology. Aviation, computers, for example.


7 posted on 04/23/2012 4:54:22 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent * By the way, Ted, voting for Romney is voting stupid.)
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To: KevinDavis

“Planet Hope” and “Obama City”?

Backward thinking won’t lead to the future. There are some interesting issues brought up here but space has no room for race clingers.


8 posted on 04/23/2012 4:54:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

What space race?


9 posted on 04/23/2012 4:55:46 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: cripplecreek; All

Exactly.. In space people regardless of race has to work together..


10 posted on 04/23/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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It won’t evolve in space. By the time we colonize, we’ll be cyborgs.


11 posted on 04/23/2012 5:04:18 PM PDT by rbg81
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Blacks do need to think about space but worrying about race is space is nothing but a stumbling block. If blacks really want to go to space I offer the most enthusiastic encouragement possible and I offer this advice.

Get good grades and win scholarships to college. Once in college, forego the race studies and excel in math, physics, and other hard sciences.


12 posted on 04/23/2012 5:04:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek; All

Exactly..


13 posted on 04/23/2012 5:07:27 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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14 posted on 04/23/2012 5:08:30 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: KevinDavis
Dream big or give up and rot.

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15 posted on 04/23/2012 5:12:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: KevinDavis

Do you honestly think Leftists are going to let humanity out of its grasp by letting them off the planet? Not on your life. They would rather imprison us here so they can keep us under their collective thumb.


16 posted on 04/23/2012 5:14:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Cvengr
The Bronze age bitter clinger's society is not amused.

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17 posted on 04/23/2012 5:14:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: KevinDavis

They better have a team of lawyers on board for that mission.


18 posted on 04/23/2012 5:30:50 PM PDT by equaviator
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19 posted on 04/23/2012 6:37:26 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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