Astroengineering Quotes

It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

The more we know about life out there the easier it will be to improve life down here.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.