In your opinion, is space exploration necessary? (lemmy.ml)

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I just started thinking about it. Why is space exploration even that necessary? They're spending so much money on it when we have so much problems in our own planet..

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[-] industrialholiday@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago

Well… short term no it’s not necessary (although as other folks have said on the thread it does give some technology advancements, and gives humanity a warm fuzzy sense of achievement)

Long term, it depends on the eval criteria

If we want the human race to live as long as possible, then I would say yes - to diversify, distribute and minimise the risk of planetary (Earth) failure
If we don’t give a toss about the human race then no, the Universe will be just fine without us

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