Re:SpaceX Jason-3 Live Webcast
by teddyh on Sunday January 17, 2016 @05:12PM
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Reporter: “Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?”
Commander Sinclair: “No. We have to stay here. And there’s a simple reason why: Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you’ll get ten different answers. But there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: Whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us, it’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto¹, and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes, and all of this… and all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.”
Commander Sinclair: “No. We have to stay here. And there’s a simple reason why: Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you’ll get ten different answers. But there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: Whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us, it’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto¹, and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes, and all of this… and all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.”
— Babylon 5, Season 1 Episode 4, Infection (1994)
① Fictional