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In article <DH48x9.5E6@abs.net>, pfilner <pfilner@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> writes:
>  Jeff Wilson <jdwilson@bnr.ca> wrote:
  
>>Human do have a place in space.  Shall we debate whether of not this planet
>>and the natural resources that we waste every day will last forever?  
>>Like it or not, we will eventually need to venture out for resources.  If
>>you think it can be done easily robotically, just look how long NASA has been
>>trying to design a Mars rover!

> Humans certainly have a place in space: Earth.  The earth is our space ship.

  White people certainly have a place in the world:  Europe.

  I hope you take my point.  Human have spread over the Earth as a result
of many migrations over tens of thousands of years.  Humans go where they
want or need to.  We have no predestined place; our place is where we
choose to make it.
 
> The way to stop wasting natural resources is to stop wasting natural
> resources.  The notion that we should replenish our resources by harvesting
> spacestuff, so we can waste even more, strikes me as obscene. Neither our
> resources on earth, nor humanity will last forever.

  Where does one draw the line between "use" and "waste"?  Hint:  even
if all "waste" is stopped, we will still run out of Earth-based resources
at some point in the distant future.
 
> There are economic and technical barriers to the sci-fi vision of mining
> spacestuff and shipping it back to earth for human consumption which are, 
> currently and for the foreseeable future, insurmountable.

  On what timescale?  Economic and technical barriers shrink over time.
No one is suggesting large scale harvesting of "spacestuff" in the next
few decades.
 
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