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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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