What is the value of space exploration? ?
A lot of your answerers are saying that the value of space exploration is in the advance of technics (which basically means an increase in people’s comfort level) or an increase of knowledge. But while those things are indeed valuable, there is a reason to explore space that stands far above comfort or knowledge. For three billion years, Earth has been the home of life. And during all that time life has been struggling against itself and against the environment to survive. In a competitive situation, survival requires constant improvement. One of those improvements was intelligence. With intelligence came culture, art, wisdom, and the appreciation of beauty in things both natural and contrived. Although the same process might have occurred, or might someday occur, on some other planet, we don’t know that this is the case. And whether extraterrestrial life exists or not, it would be to our shame to allow the Life of Earth to become extinct, to act in such a way as to shorten greatly its
