Why You Should Care About Space

I like Space. You may not care about Space, but I have been fascinated by it since I was a child.

Why you should care about Space:

1. You may think that NASA and Space exploration are wastes of money. I think that wars are wastes of money and that mankind's future is in Space.

2. There are already too many humans on Earth and sex is just too much fun to think that overpopulation will reverse itself any time soon. The solution in the future will be to colonize other planets.

3. We are using up Earth's resources at an alarming rate. As with reproducing, we cannot help ourselves. The solution in the future will be to go use up other planets.

4. There is other life out there in the Universe. No, UFO's are not alien visiters and aliens did not build the pyramids, but one day we will discover extraterestrial life or it will find us. These aliens may have the cure for the common cold like the bigfoot aliens on The Six Million Dollar Man.

5. It is human nature to explore and dominate. Space really is the "final frontier" and who knows, through Space exploration, we may find some highly evolved yet wimpy aliens that we can exploit.

That being said, I am going to start informing Turnipblog readers about the current state of human space exploration.

For more on this subject, I recommend Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot, named after this image (link)