So have we all just kind of given up on space travel? I mean, we went to the moon, and that was awesome, but we haven't really done much since then. Sure, we've LEARNED a lot about space. And we take pictures of galaxies that are retardedly far away. Not to mention the Mars probes, which kick several different varieties of ass. The thing is, we don't really GO anywhere anymore. We just send people up to the space station and take pictures, which is fine, but it's getting old.
This isn't to say we aren't trying. I know that NASA desperately wants to get people on Mars, but we just don't have the technology for it. The problem is that they don't have enough funding to get this kind of work done. And since we're not competing with the Russians for stupid crap anymore, the government isn't exactly in a hurry to give them any money, since getting to Mars, while cool, won't really benefit us in anything BUT astronomy. Or so they think.
Honestly, I think we need to get busy on this. We're eventually going to have to move, right? Earth is going down eventually, so we got to find somehere else to go. If not Mars, then let's think long-term. Going to other galaxies and all that crap. Warp travel. Hell yeah.*
*I am aware that basically nothing I have said is accurate. I really just want life to be like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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