lol will... jester...
personally, while space might be fascinating and unexplored territory, I think we have more pressing problems on planet earth to deal with first..
in my opinion, there are only two reasons for society to spend billions on putting things in space-
one- scientists look for inhabitable planets outside this one is because they are still looking for a new home for humans, instead of fixing up the house we already have...
and two- so we can send military stuff up there to both a) watch our commie/muslim/iranian neighbours and b) have available weapons in case they don't play nice...
while they both may seem logical, neither of them are neccessary. Both are ridiculously expensive and to me, it defies logic that we can spend billions putting rockets into space to "pretend" we'll laser beam threatening asteroids to smithereens while ppl still starve to death and live in slums.
