Weekly Weblog Question

I think that with the rate that our population is growing that it is much more likely that people will search for an answer here on earth before they turn to space. In fact there are already people trying to find solutions to the growing population in America through immigration law reforms. So I think that things like that will continue going on for many years before we turn to spreading into space. I think that the real turn towards living in space will be either completely scientific or completely desperate, depending on how things continue to grow and change. If somehow the population rate growth does slow down, but technology continues to grow that there is a good chance that the government will try to build a community on the moon, just to see if it is possible and as a reference for the future. But if the population growth rate continues to grow at a more and more rapid rate then someone somewhere will realize that something has to be done and figure out a way to expand out into the galaxy, if only as a means to save human kind, like Hawkings mentions in the other article. Either way I do not think that we will have the technology to start a community in space for a very long time.