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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)that we are Avatar freaks, blah, blah, blah, let me add this. Avatar's Pandora is based on the Amazon rain forest. I'm old enough to remember a time when there were no roads into the interior other than the river and on the edge. There was practically no civilization, just tribes that still lived in the Stone Age. If you really, want a good movie that is about this, rent "The Emerald Forest" sometime. It's about the trashing of this ecosystem.
In addition, I used to be a spelunker. For those who don't know the word, it means a caver. If outer space were colonized by spelunkers, I might feel we had hope of not polluting space. It is the spelunker's mantra to not touch or move anything in the cave environment. The spelunkers motto is: "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time." Could we do this in space?