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So I was watching Babylon 5 today, and up came a quote I'd been trying to remember for ages. It has particular reference now, I feel, regarding the shuttle disaster....

"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?" "No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes... And all of this... All of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." Mary Ann Cramer interviews Cmdr. Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection"

Okay, so maybe we aren't that far "out there" yet, but for some reason I find it a compelling arguement. I suppose I'm just odd that way.



"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred Hoyle

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