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We are RAPIDLY "Running Out of Capital" to fund what MAY BE our Species' Destiny.

That we Don't "Go to the Stars" is NOT a problem of Technology or Funding (at the moment), it is a matter of WILL.

If we Fail this "Test;" "Humankind" may well become an "Ancient, Failed Lifeform" catalogued by some future Interstellar Species.

To "Involute," & abandon the Dreams of our "Best Ones", is to Wither--& Die!

There are LOTS of us "Humans" who would have our Species "Go On to the Stars!"

So WHO will lead us--those who would have us "Involute," & "Care for the Poor:" or Those who would have us "Care for the Poor AND, 'Go To The Stars!!'"

Our G'Grandchildren will CURSE the Names of Those Who Turned Their Backs on the Stars!!

THIS, I Guarantee!!

Doc

When daddy gives sonny boy the bicycle for his birthday... he will only let little johnny stay off it for a while...

Eventually, johnny will either volunteer to ride the bloody thing skinned up ankles and elbows notwithstanding, or daddy will help johnny see the light. Yes, I speak from experience.

This is because balance is a lesson that MUST be learned.
This is the nature of reality.
Mankind will be "prompted" by the "hand from nowhere" if he does not move voluntarily.

and NO we will not turn our backs on the stars.
God layed abraham on his arse one night, concerning destiny, and said "Sonnyboy, just you look at the stars, and to the degree you can them, you will be able to count your own seed.." As the stars of the heaven.. so shall thy seed be." That decidedly means mankind is destined to be all over the universe and in massive quantities, NOT just on some tiny plot of ground in the local cemetary... or some extinct fossil in a dead universe. No way.

God knew then what he was directing abraham's attention to. God knew an infinite number of humans on a scale with the entire hosts of heaven would require LOTS of real estate to live on... explore and develop.

The imagery was not mistakeable.
We have a destiny, to exist as the sands of the shore, and the endless seas of stars in the heavens above us. So is our destiny.

I am of the opinion that we will engage and conquer space...
and NOT go extinct in the process.

Given the terraforming and farming skills of the human race, ultimately the soil on Mars, looks rather tillable to me.. the rocks look easy to gather, all it needs is the human touch.

The question is, will we get with the program in our lifetime? Or will we spend all our capitol on constructing the perfect nannystate utopian socialist order here?