why?

Resources are finite

ftl is not possible.

With fusion power you will never run out of anything.

There is enough resources in our system to support trillions of people for millions of years.

No we wonts

Bacteria wil surviv

If we dismantle Mercury we can build enough habitat for trillions of ppl and use our stars energy for billions of years if we manage our star.

You guys worrying about traveling to other planets are small time.
What we need to do is make our *planet* travel.

Wokest

But we will freeze to death @Schedrevka

So no

We will need to move the entire system

With fusion energy we will be able to afford the fusion of heavy elements. We harvest our star of it Hydrogen and turn that in to Carbon and Oxygen.

Easy, just make a trailer hitch for the sun

And tie it with cables

Does Acosta still have its Press Pass??

And shouldn't there be a press conference today??

You're talking about a Shkadov thruster. A big ball around the sun with a small hole it to let out the light. You could move an entire galaxy this way if you wanted.

I think Accosta was given his pass back by court order, and now there is going to be rules put in place for how the press is allowed to behave within the white house. Beforehand it was just a matter of everyone being respectful by choice, but he fucked up so now everyone is going to have to follow the rules

Rule 1: no dabbing in the White House

We need to build a space elevator

Rule 2: constant flossing in the White House

we make the planets come to us

We attach a small generator to every soul Lord Xenu has trapped on Earth

XENU

I think the space elevator is a meme according to materials science.

it's such a bad idea

space elevator wtf

Jesus fucking christ

The only practical non-rocket space launch tech is the spacegun.

your heart would stop beating

space stairs

isn't there a theory on a non solid tower for such an endeavor? expanding from rings kept in place with an energy field?

fewer moving parts

Rings as in railgun coils?

Railguns are exactly perfect for space gun

Just some power and aiming

Chemical spaceguns are much easier than railguns.

Yes

But pollution