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We have all our eggs in this one basket called planet Earth that could easily suffer a global disaster, perhaps destroying the human race, but at the least setting us back centuries or longer. Also, sometime within this generation or the next, we will run out of oil, and sometime after that, we will run out of coal and gas. We will even run out of nuclear fuel. But that's in the future, and the space agencies of the world are going to be exploiting the resources from space by then anyway, right?

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The Open Source Space Colonization project where anyone can contribute to human colonization of local space before a disaster strikes us.

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What's going on? We're running out of fossil fuels! Limitless Renewable Energy From Space Future human evolution The Path to Space thumb|300px|left|Stephen Petranek at TED Talks highlights some of the biggest ways in which the human race could come to an end, and observes a number of times that colonizing space is the only way to protect ourselves

What can we do about it? The technology we will need in order to get all the clean, renewable energy we need from space, that will solve all our energy problems, already exists. We simply have to get together in large numbers and build it; and an open source implementation is the most efficient way to do that. About this wiki Why Open Source the entire field of space colonization? We need a substantial workforce if we are to have any chance of colonizing space in the short time available We need a plan NEW: Learn by watching videos

What's new on Space Colonization Wiki

• A detailed discussion of Open Source Space Colonization has been planned. Coming soon.

• A call to open source the strategies and work required to colonize space has been added.

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