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A comment on Why Explore Space (1970).

Re:Why Explore Space (1970) by Animats on Saturday July 18, 2015 @05:45PM (#9909055)
We've explored the solar system. We now know what all the planets look like in some detail. There's no life anywhere off Earth. Not even bacteria. Venus is too hot, Mars is too airless, and everything else is worse. The most worthless real estate on Earth is more habitable than the best real estate off-planet.

As the Economist points out, the final frontier, Pluto, was reached this week.

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Re:Why Explore Space (1970) by eCa on Saturday July 18, 2015 @07:24PM (#9909378)
The solar system is to the universe what a grain of sand is to the solar system.

"It would be inexcusably egocentric to suggest that we are alone in the cosmos." [1]

[1] Neil DeGrasse Tyson: https://youtu.be/JQMuNImYzjc?t=4m21s

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Re:Why Explore Space (1970) by maaku on Sunday July 19, 2015 @02:28AM (#9910227)
Even if we are alone, so what? All the more reason to expand life outward.
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