Space Exploration
Picture Earth with no other living creatures but bugs, do you really want Earth to be inhabited by just bugs and bugs alone? But wait, you'd ask yourself, where did all the humans go?
The survival of our civilization and humanity depends on the possibility of accumulating enough knowledge, technical resources and the necessary motivation to pursue our further expansion outside the confines of Earth. Science technology and space exploration are convinced that the alternative to expansion would be facing extinction.
Space exploration would make it possible for significant numbers of people to live outside of Earth. The world has become overpopulated and nothing seems to indicate that this figure would decrease unless a severe war or global cataclysm occurs which would endanger the whole earth's biosphere. Not only would living outside of Earth bring an increase to our knowledge but it would also help us to avoid global crises threatening humanity.
We do not devote enough of our resources to science to further our knowledge about the universe. There is so much more to discover for an example we can't forget the possibility of contacting other intelligent extraterrestrial beings who's existence seem probable though not yet confirmed.
Quite few resources have mentioned that by neglecting science, space research and exploration in particular, would lead to putting a great risk to the future human race. We in fact are wasting time by not doing enough space exploration because in the future we are facing extinction. The most astounding of possibilities is the collision of Earth with a celestial body, a comet or asteroid. Depending on the size of such a body the consequences may be different. Astronomical observations and current space research have confirmed that such cosmic collisions are not rare exceptions within the geological time scale.
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