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Moving out to the other planets in the solar system to exploit their resources and possibly to make attempts at making them more habitable are inevitable. Once that happens, we will be able to grow from mother Earth out to the solar system. At that point, necessity will teach us new technologies relating to the preservation of life for extended periods of time in space. The world will loose its resources issue, exept perhaps in regards to the production of enough food, but again technology should be able to step in and create foodstuffs extra-terrestrially.
Once Man has colonised the solar system (something that could take 5000 years), the technologies learnt should make him able to at least consider taking tentative steps out to the nearest extra-solar system. After that, who knows.
But in my mind, this is what Man does best. If Man has a purpose, it is to seed the universe with life from Earth.
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