What are the benefits of space exploration – Answers.com

The primary benefit is the survival of the human species, and that's the only one that really matters; for all others pale in comparison. Possibly within the next 100 years, probably within the next 10,000 years, and definitely within the next 10 million years, the earth wil no longer be able to sustain human civilization, and we'll have to leave. But more importantly, unless we spread out and populate other planets and moons around ours and other suns, our fate as a species wil be tied to one world, one sun. When the earth dies, we'll die with it; but even before then it may kill us. Until we colonize space, fill the universe with our progeny, we are bound to the same cycle of extinction that's claimed 99% of all species that have ever existed. We are a dying species: Maybe we're already dead. So, to answer your question, the main benefit of space exploitation is human survival. It isn't about money, pride, knowledge, or power, it's about our future. Think about that the next time the republicans cut Nasa's funding.

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