Any species or society will have a momentum in terms of its development. A stone age species will want to go to the end of stone age technology unless it is acted on by an outside force. An industrial society will want to hit the wall of industrial age technology unless it is acted on by an outside force. Think about it, if an outside force didn’t act, a steam punk society could have been a reality. In this light, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that humanity only seriously attempts to become a space faring species when we are forced off Earth by disasters and over population. I won’t be surprised to see humanity only seriously fund space out of greed.
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-Can we become space faring without an outside force?
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-An industrial society will continue to be an industrial society until an outside for acts upon it
