Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget [space travel] as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home? No. We have to stay [in space] and theres a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and youll get ten different answers, but theres 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 wont just take us. Itll 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
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:40:19 +0000
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