Love in space

For humans to exist in space, they must love. They must even copulate. They need to have babies. Make them grow happily to create caring Neos of the future. Will space be a good territory for nurturing love? It should be.

There are lots of people on the planet who will give a good fuck in space just to get into a space rocket in the first place. Hence, there is no denying, that the will is there.

Now, the moot question is where to bring the technology from to sustain the entire reproductive system on a spacecraft, create a congenial environment for babies to grow? Also, there is one ethical question. Will space born Neos who have never physically interacted with Earth bound humans, ever develop an intimacy which is strong enough to care for Mother Earth and its lives? Or will they show a devil may care attitude towards us?

The moment care vanishes, the situation develops into us versus them. And that is not quite a cool thing to happen. Also, once the last Earth sourced human dies on the spacecraft, Neos are bound to feel alienated from Earth bound humans. Assuming such a human enters spacecraft at age 20 and survives for 50 more years, a space mission beyond 50 years in duration, will face serious alienation.

Technologies are developing really fast. Now smartphones can be controlled by gestures, voice and even eye-movements. Hence, the day is not far when the keyboard will die the death akin to a gramophone.

The focus on next, must not deviate us from the focus on the present moment. What we need to think about is - How can we sustain healthcare on spacecraft? Educate children, and create sort of multiple family structures within a single spacecraft? We need to create entire varied eco-system who do not follow a single rule to ensure the freedom of individuals is not stifled by the ruler. Minority voices must not get crushed if true. Hence, a legal system is required on spacecraft too.

In fact, almost entire Earth will have to be duplicated for the sake of love in space. The best way out would be to hop on a moon or an asteroid and make a colony on it. Than steer it into deep space. A spacecraft of such huge size which can accommodate entire human civilization and biological signatures of diverse ecosystem is best created on a large naturally available surface like a moon. The reason being, to create such vast artificial resources will consume a lot of Earth resource, also it will be prohibitively costly.

However, care will have to be taken how far we are capable of moving moon without disturbing the entire Solar system balance. Nothing should be done which might increase flux in the Solar system, causing a lot of trouble for Earth or other space objects. Love in space is not just about kissing and copulating. There is plenty more to think about.