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Originally Posted by Boerseun
I want humans to go to the planets, the stars, and eventually the entire galaxy. But I need a damn good reason. And I haven't heard a single one. Not a peep. So, convince me.
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Perhaps I was too vague. I am less interested in what can be found and brought back from Space Exploration than what we must learn and develop to muster the capability. From my point of view, and as I mentioned supported by the history of exploration, the exploration is the primary (the cake?) and the spoils (frosting?), secondary.
The analogy is crude since the secondary folds back and through, self-feeding an upward spiral. The only argument I can see for NOT going and as soon as possible is that of some predatory militaristic extra-terrestrial race such as Stephan Hawking seems to fear. I am more of the mind of Carl Sagan concluding that the very struggle to survive such technologies required for inter-stellar travel implies a peaceful society. That alone is a worthwhile and noble goal sufficient to justify the expenditure. Add the rapidly growing problem of over population and it's a given for me, considering the alternative "solutions".
