Pros And Cons Of Colonizing Outer Space

The editorial group at Salon shares an article, "Will we discover a twin Earth? 20 big questions about the future of humanity", originally published by Scientific American, an American popular science magazine. Amongst these thought-provoking inquiries, the question of whether we will ever colonize outer space stands out the most. The exhilarating thought of inhabiting a planet beyond Earth calls upon for assessment of which planet, when, and how. However, most fail to take into consideration the great difficulty of colonizing an otherwise uninhabited landscape. As the science magazine states, "we currently have a very inadequate understanding of how to build closed ecosystems that are robust to perturbation by introduced organisms...", essentially we internally contain little to no information on how to successfully create an ecosystem that is unfazed by the introduction of a new life form. Scientific American further emphasizes the struggle of colonizing outer space by suspecting that "the contained ecosystem problem will turn out to be much more challenging than the vast majority of space colonization advocates realize". This evidentiary support further solidifies the massive struggle that space colonization would be. …show more content…
Scientific American explains the predicament of inhabiting outer space as mankind has failed to colonize underwater areas on Earth. In other words, how can individuals colonize a location with a hardly present atmosphere, if the colonization of underwater areas has yet to be conquered? The science magazine moreover disputes the idea of colonizing outer space as absurd, as the magazine elaborates that it is delusional to contemplate "mass emigration from