I've said this myself for quite some time. If we can get our crap together the human race can survive. We currently have the technology for instance to land a man on mars. Which would be a huge step for our space program it's just fairly expensive and everyones too greedy to want to spend the money. We as an intelligent race have the ability to change our own fate. If we at least get some of our life off this rock and on other rocks to colonize we in the end can save our own asses from meteors and comets and other such freak disasters that are bound to happen. If we strive to become a space faring people we can leave the solar system when our sun gets close to dying and survive the end of our solar system. If we continue to expand and develop new technologies a long time in the future we may be able to leave or at the very least endure the colliding of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.

If we stay on Earth and never leave we are a dead. Sooner or later be it tomorrow or in 3 billion years...we will be destroyed sooner or later only taking steps to ensure our race lives on past the earth will we ensure our survival.


However I disagree with not doing missions just for the sake of Knowledge. Everytime we send a probe to a certain planet or asteroid there is many questions and theories that Nasa and other scientists/astronomers are testing and learning to discover new things, things that could help us. To the average person it may seem like a waste of time and money but it's really not. Every bit of knowledge helps us in the long run. We just can't be discouraged by small steps.
Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on . The End of Man The End of Man Quantummist 07/05/07 Mankind will sooner or later be wiped from this little ball we live on. This is a fact not an opinion. next week we could be hit by a mile wide hunk of iron and we're toast. A shift in the magnetic field of the planet will someday wipe 90% of all life from the tiny blue ball we call home. Someday the sun will burp and all life will be ash in seconds. Someday a super volcano will erupt and almost all life large enough to see with the naked eye will vanish Rating: 5