Professor warns space exploration will spark totalitarian societies equipped with nuclear weapons

Space agencies across the world are working tirelessly to design the best ships and technologies for the chance to claim a stake of the final frontier for their country. Although it may seem like an act of national pride, a professor from Johns Hopkins University warns that space expansion may lead to the extinction of humanity, suggesting it should not be attempted at all. Daniel Deudney recently published a book titled'Dark Skies' that examines space expansionism through geopolitics revealing cosmic habitats could spark totalitarian empires. The political science professor also notes that if these settlements stretch across the solar system, nuclear weapons will become the gold standard in war, along with using asteroids to destroy enemy planets - but other experts feel these arguments are'too pessimistic.' 'I argue that the consequences of what has actually happened in space are much less positive than space enthusiasts and many others believe,' reads'Dark Skies.' 'In sum, this book argues that the large-scale expansion of human activities into space, past and future, should join the lengthening list of catastrophic and existential threats to humanity, and that the ambitious core of space expansionism should be explicitly relinquished.'