Astronomy / Space Why space?

[Zak Gordon]

It's a bit like asking 'Why am i here?'. You are.

And the story of why that is goes all the way back to those African planes and coastlines we evolved in. 'Lucy' and the gang etc. We are travellers, in our dna/culture/human condition. It's what we do and the world population traces that story exactly.

Space is just the next step in that human journey, and we will get there (or wipe ourselves out before we can). Space is that next island to travel to and explore.

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Because for me, when I was 1... well slightly before, my parents woke me up to watch a live broadcast of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Granted I didn't remember much of it, but you know... There was also a mission transcript a few years later and recordings... I guess it got me hooked.

I was five, and as I wrote in another thread, even though i didn't really understand what Armstrong said, all the grown ups were very proud. It kind of gathered humanity for a short while.

@Zak
Yes, but you still won't be able to phone home.

 

[Zak Gordon]

'Phoning home' has never stopped human exploration patterns in the past. Heck how many people signed up for that (now defunct) Mars One thing?!!

We are explorers intrinsically, and Space is just one other place that itch will (has) take us too.

 

[Patrick_68000]

It's a bit like asking 'Why am i here?'. You are.

And the story of why that is goes all the way back to those African planes and coastlines we evolved in. 'Lucy' and the gang etc. We are travellers, in our dna/culture/human condition. It's what we do and the world population traces that story exactly.

Space is just the next step in that human journey, and we will get there (or wipe ourselves out before we can). Space is that next island to travel to and explore.

We need to build spaceships of tens kilometers long and wide to survive during our very long, endless journeys.

If we want to survive when the Earth will become uninhabitable.

 

[Necronaught]

I loved space, being an early 70's baby the hype around 2001, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Alien, Blake's Seven, Dr Who and all the B movies really resonated with me. Then I learned that science has no clue. Most of what is supposedly known is nothing more than semi- informed speculation. Compiled using data that may or may not be right. I was blown away. Then I looked through a telescope and all I saw were more lights. It was then when I realised just how little we know about our local, let alone another star system.