“FIVE PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE THINK; TEN PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE THINK THEY THINK; AND THE OTHER EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT WOULD RATHER DIE THAN THINK.”
Thomas Edison
We’re not in danger of running out of resources — we’re in danger from people who think we’re running out of resources. We’re not in danger of overpopulation— we’re in danger from people who think there are too many people. Going to Mars is the clearest and most forceful demonstration of the non-finitude of the human reach. We are not confined to the Earth.
“With energy free to all, materials available in great abundance, and mobility throughout the solar system available to san individual community, it should be more difficult in space than it is on Earth for an unsuccessful government to argue that its failure is due to unavoidable circumstances of location or resources.”
Gerard K. O’Neil, The High Frontier
APPLICATION SCREENS
“It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible and that window could be open for a long time hopefully it is — or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.”
