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>Overall, a very narrow view of the future. We will, eventually, run out of
>resources here. Hell, we might even make the place uninhabitable. But, by
>and large, the best reason for continuing with space orientated research is
>that we are naturally born explorers. We will get to space some day, and the
>things you mentioned(aside from the debt and the Jets) are an individuals
>responsibility, already heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. And, guess what, 
>some of those people may want to use the education that they are provided,
>and that you would provide them, to explore the area that you would preclude
>them from.

>Ken

Well, I like to think of it as a compassionate view of the futre.  We 
fucked Earth up royally, so why should we go traipsing around fucking up 
the rest of the universe?  You seem to view resources as being finite 
under any circumstances.  If you think about though, witha little more 
judicious use of our resources, and clever recycling of what we did use, 
there really was no need for these resources to run out for thousands 
more years.  When you consider that so many nations use so much less 
energy and resources per capita than North America, and you consider the 
many areas where we have the potential to reduce our consuption and 
recover large portions of what we do consume, it strikes me as a rather 
irresponsible and gutless response to abandon our planet in favour of 
pillaging another.
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