Re: Colonising Planets

Do you think humanity will ever create colonies on the other planets (not just couple of trained astronauts but a civilian population in a city or something similar) and depending on your opinion why not / where and when do you think they're likely to be created first?... also will the frontier of colonising be in our own solar system on Mars for example or on some exoplanet

Of course it will, once it will reach a sufficient level of development.
Due to nature of human species, expansion is the only way to evolve.

The more we develop, the more wars we get. Wars destroy our chances to work together so that we can do some really great things like going to other planets.

Cool

Simplest way to stop wars on Earth is to create external enemy. That can be achieved by creating extraterrastrial colony, which then be allowed to proclaim its sovereignty.

Sounds like the chicken and egg dilemma. A catch 22. Can't afford to colonize without stopping the wars. Can't stop the wars without an outside colony to threaten.

There is no dilemma as long as we do not speak about long term peace on Earth. Short-time absence of wars can be sufficient and this may be introduced through the dictatorship. As soon as there will be a interim global authority with dictatorship privileges, there will be a possibility to establish some extraterrastrial colonies. These colonies will provide the interim global authority with necessary resources, such as helium-3 supplies or whatever, but not for long. Once reached a certain level of integrity, colonies will proclaim themselves independent and this will eventually lead to either the fall of global authority or its transition into another form of state. But the local peace may be preserved and stabilized as the result.