Gary Johnson says human race will have to eventually live on other planets

[DonViejo]

The human race will have to eventually inhabit other planets, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Sunday.

"I mean, the plate tectonics at one point, Africa and South America separated, and I am talking now about the Earth and the fact that we have existed for billions of years and will going forward," Johnson said on ABC's "This Week."

"We do have to inhabit other planets. I mean, the future of the human race ... is space exploration. So, no, we should be prudent with the environment. We care about the environment." The former New Mexico governor was responding to comments of his from 2011 that climate change is a long-term issue and that the sun would eventually encompass the earth.

Johnson vowed to stay in the race even though he won't be part of the first presidential debate on Monday night, saying it's “an ongoing process” to reach the 15 percent support polling standard to be included.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/297664-gary-johnson-says-human-race-will-have-to-eventually-live

[liberal N proud]

1. IN a galaxy far away

I volunteer Gary Johnson to be the first to go

[Hortensis]

14. Lol. Adventurous minds are fine with me, but

before he heads out he should plan to patch the roof and whatever else most people do to leave their homes habitable.

[BootinUp]

2. This should help him with the real fringe constituency. nt

[bigdarryl]

3. Jesus this guy is nutty

I don't know why anyone would throw there vote away for this guy.Tom Hartman was talking about him when he was a republican Governor of New Mexico how he bankrupted the state.The only reason some millennial's are voting for him is because he mentioned free collage.

[tblue37]

9. And because they want to flip the bird at the establishment. nt

[MineralMan]

4. I vote to send him first.

[pinboy3niner]

7. He's already living on another planet right now

[marybourg]

13. When I lived in New Mexico,

that's exactly how I referred to it.

[HipChick]

5. He gives me the creeps

but I do agree with him on this point, but lets finish completely messing up this one, before we move somewhere else

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Is this supposed to be a profound statement by that idiot?

I believe that the Wonderful World of Disney was saying the same thing in the 50's

[Coyotl]

8. Maybe he could start that for us.

While the rest of us evolve.

[vdogg]

10. He's right.

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I don't support Johnson but he's right on this. We will have to become a multi-planetary species in order to stave off eventual extinction. Earth won't last forever.

[exboyfil]

11. It is a time scale thing

Prudent stewardship will give us at least 500 million years (about the time multi-cellular organisms have existed) on this planet.

Our first priority in space exploration should be developing capability to detect and redirect comets and meteors. We have a fantastic planet here, and we need to protect it. It will be a long time until we can terraform Mars and that is our next best option (note that even Kim Stanley Robinson famous for his Mars novels has backed off on optimistic estimates of Mars terraforming.

Another advantage of redirecting asteroids is access to incredible raw materials.

[longship]

15. But the real problem with Mars is no magnetic field.

So any terra formed atmosphere would be stripped off by solar wind, just as it happened earlier on Mars. Then, there's the radiation...

[exboyfil]

19. Good point and another limitation

Perhaps we will have to always live under a dome on Mars.

[JI7]

12. He sounds like an idiot just rambling and trying to sound like he knows

what he is saying.

Humans have not been here very long when compared to earth itself.

And space programs cost lots of money.

[EricMaundry]

16. Gary knows

He's already been there.

[BSdetect]

17. Beam us up Gary

[Skidmore]

18. Because the Libertarian Party is fine with stripping the world

of resources without regulations of any sort. They are destroyers.