Multi-planetary species

Core Goal

Establish a self-sustaining city on Mars

Key Enabler

SpaceX Starship program

Primary Advocate

Elon Musk

Motivation (General)

Protect future of human race, foster innovation, expand human potential

Motivation (Elon Musk)

Concern for 'Decline of the West' and low birth rates

Associated Philosophical Driver

Philosophy of Curiosity (Elon Musk)

Enabling Technology Requirement

Full rocket reusability

Primary Engineering Challenge (Starship)

Creating a durable, fully reusable Orbital Heat Shield

1950s-1960s

2021-12-01

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Becoming a multiplanetary species could protect the future of the human race and help humanity reach its full potential. Human habitation across multiple planets will create new hubs of innovation and experimentation leading to advances in science, technology and commerce. Significantly increasing government and private sector spending on crewed spaceflight is an investment in national and international security against long-tail risks. [...] It is important to note that becoming a multiplanetary species will not address what are commonly understood to be our most pressing problems here on earth. Increasingly, people see global warming and social inequality as twin crises that are the most urgent issues of our time. Although space-based assets can help us better understand global warming, investing in technologies or instituting policies to prevent an ecological catastrophe on earth will always be more efficient ways to address [...] The technologies we develop on our way to becoming a multiplanetary species will also benefit us here on earth. Today, satellites are used to monitor carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions to give us a better picture of the causes of global warming and promote accountability. In her first speech devoted to space, US Vice-President Kalama Harris said: “I truly believe space activity is climate action.” In a recent report, the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Space laid out the

have all sorts of species living and working aboard it even from outside of the Federation member planets and their presence is celebrated too Wharf being a Klingon was rarely a point of contention and he was always allowed to practice his cultural rituals and such despite the Klingons not to being part of the Federation however Star Trek has two very big antagonistic counterparts to the Federation that are both also multi-species but in different ways the Borg and the Dominion in the case of [...] things tend to be set up this way in sci-fi as there is a wide variety of physical requirements that each species has that need to be met for survival one type of atmosphere that works great for one species may be poisonous to others or their food is entirely incompatible or they have entirely different centuries systems or methods of communication in the world of filming and Technical requirements this doesn't always apply though instead it's very common to just hand wave these problems away [...] Earthling simply because that's where she's from which is a fairly good point if you think about it so multi-species factions do happen but weirdly the most common depiction of them is one of subjugation with one leader species who conquered and controls the others there are sometimes depictions that are a little less horrible but these end up being more on the side of separate entities working together rather than full integration with one another what is more common is little microcosms of

Planets in multiple star systems have attracted attention from science fiction writers, especially in terms of what kind of life would exist on planets with more than one sun and how history might be cyclical as a result of the "long year" that occurs if the orbital period around one of the stars is very lengthy.( A particularly early example of this is C. I. Defontenay's 1854 novel _Star ou Psi de Cassiopée")_ (English title: _Star: Psi Cassiopeia_),( described by science fiction editorDavid [...] weaker gravity on their surfaces, or have a particularly hot or cold climate. Both desert planets and ocean planets appear, as do planets with unusual chemical conditions. Various peculiar planetary shapes have been depicted, including flattened, cubic, and toroidal. Some fictional planets exist in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics can lead to exotic day–night or seasonal cycles, while others do not orbit any star at all. More fancifully, planets are occasionally portrayed as [...] | Solar System | | Planets | Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Fictional planets | | Other bodies | Sun Moon list Asteroids Comets Pluto | | Image 9: Saturn | | Other | Extrasolar planets Stars Black holes Neutron stars Supernovae | | v t e Science fiction |

they form an entirely independent ecosystem. Although most of these multicellular lifeforms need dissolved oxygen (produced by oxygenic photosynthesis) for their aerobic cellular respiration and thus are not completely independent from sunlight by themselves, the basis for their food chain is a form of bacterium that derives its energy from oxidization of reactive chemicals, such as hydrogen or hydrogen sulfide, that bubble up from the Earth's interior. Other lifeforms entirely decoupled from [...] understanding how life might evolve elsewhere in the universe. For example, some organisms able to withstand exposure to the vacuum and radiation of outer space include the lichen fungi Rhizocarpon geographicum and Rusavskia elegans, the bacterium Bacillus safensis, Deinococcus radiodurans, Bacillus subtilis, yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, seeds from Arabidopsis thaliana ('mouse-ear cress'), as well as the invertebrate animal Tardigrade. While tardigrades are not considered true extremophiles, [...] The modern field of astrobiology can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s with the advent of space exploration, when scientists began to seriously consider the possibility of life on other planets. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which marked the beginning of the Space Age. This event led to an increase in the study of the potential for life on other planets, as scientists began to consider the possibilities opened up by the new technology of space