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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Lasereth, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the most important thing, especially considering the fact that, as far as we know, Earth is the only life-sustaining system capable of allowing us to exist. The sheer vastness of what's beyond our planet is overwhelming, and we need to have a payoff: we need to gain applicable knowledge. And there is still much for us to learn here on Earth, especially when you consider how little we still know about our own bodies.
Space exploration is important, but I think Earth is more important than what's outside of it at the moment.
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I think mankind is in a race versus time. As a species, our survival in the long term depends on the feasibility of space exploration. There's quite a few ways for humanity to obliterate itself, it already has developed and mass produced and distributed the means to do so.
Seeing as how we're just tiny organisms on a rock who are spinning around a huge ball of fire at a dizzying speed without much knowledge of what surrounds us, let's try to understand it.