Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Star Trek: Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations-to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Space is fucking awesome, and astronomy was always one of my favorite science subjects. I think saying that the human race (America) has shown no progress in space exploration in the past 40 years is a bit harsh. We have sent probes all the way to Mars and beyond. We have satellites that can nearly make it to the end of our solar system, we have a telescope that can see things billions of miles away, and we have a fucking space station. I believe the development I listed last has the most potential. It is possible that this resource is being vastly under-utilized. You're right-space exploration is super expensive, and the amount of fuel needed is enormous. But what part of flying a rocket consumes the most fuel? Well, take off and launching does. Why does that use the most fuel? Well because gravity is a bitch (in this respect). If we could build the actual rocket ship AT the space station and launch it from there, think of the fuel that could be saved.
I believe there are two resources that are vastly under exploited and virtually unexplored-space and the ocean floor. Each is most likely rich in resources-one being less expensive to explore with a finite amount of resources, the other with an infinite amount of resources but nearly infinitely more expensive to explore and capture.
I firmly believe that life on Earth will end one day. Be it in the not-so-distant future from global warming (won't happen), a meteorite smashing into the earth (plausible), or in the very distant future from the sun turning into a black hole (definite). The only way for the human race to achieve immortality is to find another habitable planet to continue our civilizations. Space exploration should be a top priority, and plus it's fucking cool. We sure don't want the god damn Russians to make the next biggest leap forward (lol).
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