> space travel is pretty much the only thing that makes sense There are plenty of things we can do. We can be more harmonious to our planet, for one. We can le

> space travel is pretty much the only thing that makes sense There are plenty of things we can do. We can be more harmonious to our planet, for one. We can learn to make the atacama or sahara deserts habitable. We can learn to stop the climate shift we seem to be experiencing. We can be more harmonious to the other humans on this planet. These are all big ticket items that will still exist even if we found some garden of eden on some far off shore. I can't think of anything worse than taking our mining and destructive natures to an innocent planet. We have created this planet's problems. We should fix them before shooting moonbeams and running away from them.