This seems to me like a false dichotomy of interplanetary scale - there's no reason we can't both fix the Earth and also venture forth. I'm starting to have som

This seems to me like a false dichotomy of interplanetary scale - there's no reason we can't both fix the Earth and also venture forth. I'm starting to have some sympathy for the conspiracy theory that there are forces working to stymie man's progress in space because they cannot bear the prospect of there being a portion of humanity outside of their control.