Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What if #5
What if we had already developed the technology needed to live on the moon or on mars? What would we use the colonies on extra terrestrial planets for? I think I have a couple good ideas, some controversial, some not. My first and best idea would be to use them as a kind of quarantine for incurable, transferable diseases. Diseases such as AIDS would be the perfect candidates for such a colony. If we were to transport all humans infected with a certain disease we could wipe out AIDS from the human race. If there was nobody to transmit it, then we could not catch it again and we would no longer have to spend money on research for a cure. AIDS would be the perfect disease to do this with because it is not an airborne pathogen. It is only transmitted through contact with blood of an infected person. I am sure it would be possible for the human race to contract the disease again, but i think it would be difficult and we would be able to locate its origin. After the infected have all died of natural causes, other humans can inhabit the space colonies and decrease the overpopulation of earth.
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that would be awesome to live in outer space. i dont know if i would want to live there but definately visit without having to wait 30 years to get there.
ReplyDeleteIt would definitely provide other resources that we could use. Disease will never be wiped out no matter what we do. I don’t think that would even be an option, because that would raise an ethical factor (if we quarantined certain people because of an illness).
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