Can Cosmology Offer Hope for Humanity's Future Beyond Our Solar System?

[Chalnoth]

Cosmology is a study not only of Present conditions, but also of Past, and also the Future conditions. Unlike History we can read also about future.

True. But cosmology's scope is just too large in scale to ever have a significant impact upon humanity. Unless, perhaps, we become an inter-galactic civilization, but that seems rather unlikely.

 

[heldervelez]

True. But cosmology's scope is just too large in scale to ever have a significant impact upon humanity. Unless, perhaps, we become an inter-galactic civilization, but that seems rather unlikely.

It is my belief, that in the future Mankind will spread Life thru far way. Need energy, time and knowledge.

'c' speed will not stop us.
Not in our times of course.

 

[Chalnoth]

It is my belief, that in the future Mankind will spread Life thru far way. Need energy, time and knowledge.

'c' speed will not stop us.
Not in our times of course.

Well, let's see if we can't make it to another star system first.

 

[heldervelez]

Cosmology will became the religion of the future

Has human beeings we sense the surrounding ambient with a limited time span.
We naturally think that we live in a stable, self regulated ambient.
It is not so. As examples: The graphs of the evolution of atmospheric CO2 in the long term shows a steady regular decrease. Life needs free CO2. We need Life.
About 13000 years ago the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture" was baned off the surface of the Earth. If it happens now the North Americans would became extincts.

The Earth is dangerously little and threatened. Resources are limited.
Mankind have to construct a safer future.
A metaphor: Life choose the Human Species to be the saviour. Cosmology will became the religion(*) of the future.

Digging Cosmology we will have answers to those perturbing issues.

(*) the positive side: provide informed guidance.

 

[DaveC426913]

I really don't understand the question here. There seems to be implicit assumption in the question that if we can't physically go there, there's no point in learning anything about it.

Man, that would make science a lot simpler, wouldn't it?
No more studies of Earth's core.
No more studies of the cores of stars or black holes.
No more string theory.
No more archeology.
The list goes on.

I have a better question: what makes something futile to study? when does learning not enrich us?

 

[Chalnoth]

Has human beeings we sense the surrounding ambient with a limited time span.
We naturally think that we live in a stable, self regulated ambient.
It is not so. As examples: The graphs of the evolution of atmospheric CO2 in the long term shows a steady regular decrease. Life needs free CO2. We need Life.
About 13000 years ago the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture" was baned off the surface of the Earth. If it happens now the North Americans would became extincts.

The Earth is dangerously little and threatened. Resources are limited.
Mankind have to construct a safer future.
A metaphor: Life choose the Human Species to be the saviour. Cosmology will became the religion(*) of the future.

Digging Cosmology we will have answers to those perturbing issues.

(*) the positive side: provide informed guidance.

I don't see how cosmology has anything to say about this whatsoever. If you want to talk about really, really long time scales, then astrophysics and thermodynamics have something to say, if we live that long. But not cosmology.