I don't need evidence from the frontier beyond earth, I need evidence that "having frontier" has any meaningful effect whatsoever on social stability. You presu

I don't need evidence from the frontier beyond earth, I need evidence that "having frontier" has any meaningful effect whatsoever on social stability. You presumably don't have any because, like the other arguments, it's a sci-fi vignette and not reality. Agreed that progress on space exploration shouldn't stop. I really have never heard a good argument for manned space exploration, which is dramatically more expensive, complicated, and risky, though.