Do we someday need space police?
Space police is a common topic in many science fiction films, where people are living in the large-scale mining cities on other moons or planets. In the beginning, I must say that sooner or later we are used the entire natural resources on Earth. So from that point of view, we must understand that there would be more and more people in the space, and that means that there would be social problems also in the future space colonies, what mission is to feed the Earth with raw materials.
And when we are talking about vision, that billion of people would start to live in space and colonize our solar system, for helping to solve the overpopulation problem on Earth, that thing causes the need to establish space police. In this futuristic scenario, mankind would establish large-scale colonies at least in our solar system.
So in this vision at the first comes scientists, who would research the planets or moons, and then start the commercial colonialism. That means the mining companies, what are acting like mining companies in history, but the operational area of those still, fictive companies would be higher scale than any company before.
Well, this is one of the most rhetoric questions in the world. The thing is that if the human race in the future would be the same, what it is now there is a need to establish space police to control the colonies in our solar system. The thing is that surely we would someday colonize our solar system even if our technology would not allow us to travel the other stars and conquer the entire galaxy. But if we would think the space colonization the advantage would be always the same, what it has been on the Earth.
That means at first the scientists are making the colonies in the area, and then the regular workers would follow them, so that means that the regular people would move to the colonies. And sooner or later there would be born people, whoever visit on the Earth. That means that the predicted advantage is similar, what happened in America when Europeans came. At first, the people moved to the new world for making money, and those people return to Europe.
And after that, the people, who would move to America and lived in stable settlements must send their children to Europe to getting an education, but then there were born people, whoever visited in the old world. That means that this advantage would be the fate of the human race. So that kind advantage means that in those colonies would be similar problems with Earth, and in this scenario, the overpopulation on Earth would start to clear the space colonies, what is the size of the cities on Earth.
The thing what can cause that the humans would start to colonize the solar system is the space mining. There are many minerals in the asteroid belt. Those minerals and metals are needed on Earth. And here we are forgetting that sooner or later the raw material on Earth ends. At that point, we should start to get those materials from space, and that means that the space colonies are the only thing, that can save the planet.
If we are thinking about things like water, what seems to be enough on Earth, we are forgetting that if the satellites are using liquid hydrogen and oxygen as the rocket fuel, we must remember that that kind of common materials is not forever, and when we are launching billions of rockets to space, we would be lost even the oceans. Here I tried to say, that nothing on Earth would stand forever.
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