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Eight ethical questions about exploring outer space that [Supposedly] need answers
phys.org ^ | Benjamin Sachs

Posted on 06/28/2018 8:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

>>Question #4: is there a duty to protect the environment on other planets?

A research grant in search of a problem. OBVIOUSLY.


21 posted on 06/28/2018 10:00:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Snickering Hound

I’m in the wrong business. OBVIOUSLY.


22 posted on 06/28/2018 10:02:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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23 posted on 06/28/2018 10:11:49 PM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie

#23. The other side of the stone said, “We have run out of parking space for rockets.”


24 posted on 06/29/2018 12:30:27 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin

Are the aliens coming to kill us asking the same questions?


25 posted on 06/29/2018 12:40:32 AM PDT by mindburglar (I missed my flight...)
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Are the aliens coming to kill us asking the same questions?

No. The war fleet massing in the Ort Cloud is already active and pursuing a course to the inner Kepler Belt were it will launch an attack from a safe distance.


26 posted on 06/29/2018 1:58:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Populate the universe with gut flora from jettisoned crap filled plastic bags!.


27 posted on 06/29/2018 3:01:51 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: BenLurkin

Interstellar travel is physical impossibility.


28 posted on 06/29/2018 3:04:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but there are only seven questions. Number three seems to be missing,


29 posted on 06/29/2018 4:35:35 AM PDT by Big Mack (I love this country.It's the government that scares the crap out of me)
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To: BenLurkin

#9. Space exploration by humans would involve successive generations of people. Some would be born on the spacecraft, live, and die without setting foot on Earth or on another planet. There is no question that this is NOT moral. Forcing people to never see Earth is wrong. We are optimized for life on Earth, and not on a spacecraft or any other planet.
#10. No doubt whatsover that crew or passengers who get sick will be put to death and expelled. No doubt at all. They will not tell you this. They will do it.
#11. Same for children born in flight who are not useful. Down’s. Autism. Others.
#12. There will be no marriage. Sex will be separated from reproduction. Sperm and egg will be united in a laboratory, and grown to gestation. The warmth and bonding of a mother will be missing, producing neurotic little humans.
#13. The flight will be implementing the left’s dream of a society without religion, and whose rules and laws are those made by the space agency. Any ideas of right and wrong that we have will be absent on the space ship.
#14. Abnormal humans will be produced on the flight. Humans are made for Earth, not for the confines of a long tube. Painting scenes of blue skies, green forests, and running water will not substitute for the real thing. Showing movies of life on Earth will not produce normal humans. If ever this becomes a reality, it is my hope that this fact will lead to mutiny or premature termination of the mission.


30 posted on 06/29/2018 4:43:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Paging Commander Quark.


31 posted on 06/29/2018 5:30:53 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just who are you? The Archduke of Guacamole?)
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To: BenLurkin

Am I the first to ask what about question #3?


32 posted on 06/29/2018 5:47:15 AM PDT by utahb52
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To: BenLurkin

Going to need a Chick-fil-A too. But no Starbucks - we have to quarantine the pandemic here.

33 posted on 06/29/2018 6:22:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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Certainly if we are affected by the universe we should care about it.

Our Solar System is not stationary and moves through the galaxy which moves through the universe. We should be aware of what is happening around us to see how it affects us.

Our solar system is probably a little less than 5 billion years old yet the universe is over 13 billion years old. Civilization only happened on this planet about 6000=10000 years ago and we only became industrial about 200 years ago. It has been less than 100 years that we have been more than remotely aware of the local solar system much less the universe.

So far what I have said has only been to put us on the same page, now I will get to my point. It is most unlikely that we are not alone in the universe. There are solar systems 3 times our age which would mean that if a world progressed just like ours that the inhabitants of it would be 10,000,000,000 years ahead of us. I can't even imagine what our world would be like 100 years from now, try 1000 years now try 10 billion.

If the inhabitants of advanced worlds don't want us to see them we won't.

Because as humans we have very short life spans the time it takes to get electromagnetic communications across great distance means we won't be communicating with others who are light years away, if you have to wait 10000’s of years for reply to a question you will have forgotten the question or it will be meaningless.

I don't know where God came from but if we were to meet someone from a civilization that was 10 billion years old to us they would be gods. Kind of like the representation of the character “Q” from “Star Trek”. He was god like but was a child. Whatever he was he was normal for his society or civilization.

I think it is great to have knowledge of what is around us and perhaps even important if we are able to divert some asteroid that would tear the earth apart if we don't change it's course.

I don't begrudge the money spent learning about where we are but people might be wise to learn about the God who placed us here and what He has planned for us and how He expects us to return to Him and be like Him.

34 posted on 06/29/2018 6:42:48 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: I want the USA back

Well, that is YOUR opinion. Mine is different. I yearn for humans to strike out for the starts, generation ships or not. That is the intended purpose of such a large Creation.


35 posted on 06/29/2018 7:13:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

EARTH FIRST! (We’ll mine the other planets later).


36 posted on 06/29/2018 7:44:01 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: KarlInOhio

LMAO!


37 posted on 06/29/2018 9:07:12 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: BenLurkin

We invade all other planets and create a empire!!!


38 posted on 06/29/2018 10:47:08 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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