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[Bri]

Wouldn't even need nukes with Colony drops.

[Ithekro]

Need large enough colony's first. Though if China is going for an armed Moon base approach, than steps may be required.

[NoemiChan]

A war will happen before that happens...

[JokerD]

Hot on the heels of India's gay sex ban: India top court reinstates gay sex ban
Comes Australia: Australia high court overturns ACT gay marriage law

[ArchmageXin]

Originally Posted by GDB

I figured if they're fighting over territory, there would be supply constraints, and thus harder to get multiple nuclear warheads there.

No, because there are sufficient resource next door. Do you think any country would gave a damn about some small island or a strip of land if they can own a planet down the street?

Of course not. Wars are not economically efficient unless you are part of the War Industry.

Assuming unlimited expansion capabilities (I.E people can self sufficiently live offworld) then the only territorial dispute exist would be religious nature (I.E fighting over who owns Jerusalem).

That is what I always found Alien invasion unrealistic, if I was Alien King X, I wouldn't bother invading earth for natural R....if I had tech capabilities to get to Earth, I could also find any natural resource anywhere else in the galaxy...without wasting energy sapping Earth's R through a gravity well.

That is why Hollywood films such as Oblivion and Armageddon are dumb as hell.

[willx]

Originally Posted by ArchmageXin

Of course not. Wars are not economically efficient unless you are part of the War Industry.

Assuming unlimited expansion capabilities (I.E people can self sufficiently live offworld) then the only territorial dispute exist would be religious nature (I.E fighting over who owns Jerusalem).

Well, there's also the economics behind labour and let's not forget ideology.

I'm not sure what the economies of scale about conquering a planet and then having the entire population as a slave labour caste ..

And well, intergalactic communism, fascism, fundamentalism, etc etc.

[SaintessHeart]

I am just waiting for a colony mission pragmatic enough to legalise child marriage with polygamy to boost population.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

I am just waiting for a colony mission pragmatic enough to legalise child marriage with polygamy to boost population.

Sorry to tell you. Impotent and sterile applicants are not allowed.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

I am just waiting for a colony mission pragmatic enough to legalise child marriage with polygamy to boost population.

You want to boost population? The only sure way is to pay for them with tax money. Make children cheaper and easier to raise, that's the only way. Sadly polygamy and underage girls do not contribute to population growth; sex does not equal children in the modern day.

[kuroishinigami]

Originally Posted by willx

Well, there's also the economics behind labour and let's not forget ideology.

I'm not sure what the economies of scale about conquering a planet and then having the entire population as a slave labour caste ..

And well, intergalactic communism, fascism, fundamentalism, etc etc.

Well, assuming they have technology that advanced, manufacturing robot that can replace labour completely wouldn't be that hard I think, and probably cheaper than maintaining human slave(and less unpredictability too) of course, ideology is a whole other matter

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

You want to boost population? The only sure way is to pay for them with tax money. Make children cheaper and easier to raise, that's the only way.

Question is, HOW are you going to pay the colonists in space?

Sadly polygamy and underage girls do not contribute to population growth; sex does not equal children in the modern day.

Heretic! Blasphemy! BURN THE WITCH!

You will not ruin the utopia with your backward, puritan thoughts!

[JokerD]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

You want to boost population? The only sure way is to pay for them with tax money. Make children cheaper and easier to raise, that's the only way. Sadly polygamy and underage girls do not contribute to population growth; sex does not equal children in the modern day.

Err.. how about less entertainment. Where at night you have nothing else to do (no internet, TV, etc) I guessing that's why rural areas have more kids than urban areas...

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by willx

Well, there's also the economics behind labour

Not to mention inhabitable real estate. Though I'm not sure how that would play out. Would there be a lot of aliens compatible with Earth's chemistry, or would we all be wildly poisonous to each other?

[Ithekro]

Cultivatable land? Could and expanding interstellar culture desire farmlands? Food? Imagine if their species industrialized to the point where their worlds couldn't provide food, but they had the technology to get to someone else's planets to make food their? They'd just need a planet with fertile lands...and perhaps farm laborers.

[Zakoo]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Not to mention inhabitable real estate. Though I'm not sure how that would play out. Would there be a lot of aliens compatible with Earth's chemistry, or would we all be wildly poisonous to each other?

We manage to find the exact replica of us but all their amino acid are D instead of L, try again humanity.

[ganbaru]

Special Report: In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9BB02520131212

Atheists face death in 13 countries, global discrimination: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9B900G20131210

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Atheists face death in 13 countries, global discrimination: study
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9B900G20131210

Here is the true god :

[ArchmageXin]

Originally Posted by willx

Well, there's also the economics behind labour and let's not forget ideology.

I'm not sure what the economies of scale about conquering a planet and then having the entire population as a slave labour caste ..

And well, intergalactic communism, fascism, fundamentalism, etc etc.

Well, labour via conquest wouldn't be very efficient, as history has shown. The only thing people would worry in addition would be some future "Space Hitler" who want to unite all of humanity under his banner.

Maybe we should have the mods to split the discussion so we can have a thread on space travel?

[GreyZone]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Here is the true god :

Now that you mention it... I never noticed the irony that is the American Dollar

[ArchmageXin]

Originally Posted by GreyZone

Now that you mention it... I never noticed the irony that is the American Dollar

Blame McCarthy era. It wasn't always that way.