Over at The Space Review, Michael Huang proposes a new term for what many of us in the space movement believe–anthropoexpansionism.

While I appreciate the thought, it seems a little too confining (depending on how you define humanity). To me, the important goal is moving life out into the universe. We are currently the means by which that is occurring, but we may at some point (and if/when the singularity occurs, that point may not be that far off) pass on the torch to a new generation of life forms–if so, would the philosophy still apply?

We need a prefix that’s more…expansive, as it were. How about vivoexpansionism? It saves a couple syllables. Or if you’re sufficiently sesquipedalian to be into syllables for their own sake, and want to be more clear, consider vivoextraterrestrialism.