It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuries. are lives too long to risk and too comfortable to upset.“ I don’t know about that, Dr. Fastolfe. You’ve come to Earth. You risk disease.”“ Yes, I do. There are some of us, Mr. Baley, who feel that the future of the human race is even worth the possible loss of an extended lifetime. Too few of us, I am sorry to say.”“ In trying to introduce robots here on Earth, we’re doing our best to upset the balance of your City economy.”“ You mean you’re creating a growing group of displaced and declassified men on purpose?”“ Not out of cruelty or callousness, believe me. A group of displaced men, as you call them, are what we need to serve as a nucleus for colonization. Your ancient America was discovered by ships fitted out with men from the prisons. Don’t you see that the City’s womb has failed the displaced man. He has nothing to lose and worlds to gain by leaving Earth. . Isaac Asimov
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It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuries. This is because the Earth is too stable for colonization to take place. Many outer worlds have tried to colonize Earth, but none have succeeded in doing so due to the Earth’s stability.

It is also because of this stability that earthlings are able to live long, comfortable lives. If humans were not so stable, then they would not be able to live so long or feel so comfortable, and thus would not be able to build up to become the dominant species in the universe.

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