Fusion reactors will find their full utility, when man start to send
their spacecrafts far out towards the stars or start to live and/or travel in
space based colonies, even far away from the sun. Their Fusion Reactors will be
their captive suns. It is certain that once man has a safe technology and
building abilities to start large space based artificial habitats, his
adventurousness, his inquisitiveness and his everlasting urge for trying to do
the impossible, will lead him into the journey of the stars; of the outer
spaces. It is not at all an outrageous idea as it may seem; the idea that he may
travel far away from the light and gravitational binding on a Sun.
At the first
glance it appears to be extremely unsafe, the idea of going into the eternal darkness
of space, with only the star studded blackness all around. But in actual our
life on earth is not very different. Here too we are on an unknown lonely planet,
alone, surrounded by limitless darkness and dangers. They too on their space
habitat will have centrifugal gravity, light and energy of their own captive
fusion sun. They will have all the resources they need with them. Their loneliness
in space will be same as ours. Instead they will have many more
advantages. No earthquakes, floods,
typhoons to face. No danger of falling asteroids, no dangers from a overheated
sun. Moreover unlike us they will not be bound to remain in a captive
elliptical path around a sun. They will be free to go wherever they want; able
to change their direction and destination. Every few hundred years,
they can approach a new sun and spend some time in a new alien environment; no
end to excitement and adventure. As
their technology advances, there are limitless things that they can do. They
will be a breed of humans fully adapted to such lives. What a beautiful life
that will be.
Apart from man’s adventurous attitude for trying
to undertake the impossible, there could also be other compelling reasons that
may force man to leave this planet or this solar system in the future. The
dangers that may compel humans to flee, which right now come to my mind could be such as:
1. An unforeseen instability of the Sun. 2. A likely supernova explosion on a
near by star. 3. The disturbance caused to the planets, asteroid belts, the
kuiper belt or the hypothesized oort cloud by the approach of an unseen drifting
dead star 4.The emergence of a destructive breed of humans on earth, where the survival
of our line of thought is becoming impossible to survive. 5. Accidental Radioactive
contamination of the whole environment. 6.The attack of an incurable virus of
unknown source. 7. Attack by some alien civilization. 8. Emergence of new philosophy that compel
humans to leave the sanctuary of a solar system and move out into space. Etc.
There can obviously many more possible reasons that right now could be eluding me.
Here I am
not talking of the natural Death of our Sun as one of the reason, because it is
too far away in time to be considered as part of human existence. It is for
sure that man will NOT live that long in his present shape. They will technologically
mutate far before that and in fact they may even decide to change the reality
of the universe long before that. I don’t think that there is any mistake in my
line of thinking. But the greatest
factor that I have left out to faith, hope and luck is the fact that all species in
this probabilistic Universe however intelligent are prone to extinction from
various expected and unexpected dangers; his own intelligence itself also being
part of these dangers.
I am an advocate of doom when I see it coming, but I am also
the greatest optimist. I am sure that a defiant, fearless, gutsy, sensible
breed of adventurous inquisitive humans will survive and spread their
intelligence far and wide in the outer spaces and Fusion Power is going to accompany
him, wherever he ventures.
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