China has it's client countries that it owns for the most part except for in name. Same with the USA.
I hope so. We need to expand and use our dwindling resources to push into space. The population bottleneck is coming.
I hope so. We need to expand and use our dwindling resources to push into space. The population bottleneck is coming.
A peaceful 2 government world would bring very little innovation. Innovation comes from competition. All that's required for space travel is a free market and an incentive.
A peaceful 2 government world would bring very little innovation. Innovation comes from competition. All that's required for space travel is a free market and an incentive.
Sometimes not even an incentive, outside of personal desire. People are willing to donate to things they believe are worthy causes - for many, space travel and exploration meets the criteria.
EDIT: Also I recall this other time we had a "peaceful two-government world", it was called the Cold War. :p
Not an exact analogy I know, but really, I don't see a ton of good coming from out of it even if you could do it completely peacefully; add in the terrible violence and destruction of war, and the ends do not justify the means, as they rarely do.
Sometimes not even an incentive, outside of personal desire. People are willing to donate to things they believe are worthy causes - for many, space travel and exploration meets the criteria.
EDIT: Also I recall this other time we had a "peaceful two-government world", it was called the Cold War. :p
Not an exact analogy I know, but really, I don't see a ton of good coming from out of it even if you could do it completely peacefully; add in the terrible violence and destruction of war, and the ends do not justify the means, as they rarely do.
Well China would make some kind of move to expand I would think. While the earth is still easily inhabitable is the time to push for moon colonies and martian colonies. Edit: A war for the last of the resources would be much worse after we have thoroughly degraded the environment.
Well China would make some kind of move to expand I would think. While the earth is still easily inhabitable is the time to push for moon colonies and martian colonies. Edit: A war for the last of the resources would be much worse after we have thoroughly degraded the environment.
I could see it happening under Trump. Makes a secret deal with Putin - "You get that half of the world, I get this half." They'd have to start WWIII as a pretext though and then only offer to help anybody if they joined the new union. America first and all that. Putin would need to be the first aggressor, although he'd claim it's in response to something America did. Then America responds in kind and so on.