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RoccoR5955

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1. We could have been doing all this and more
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 09:01 AM
Mar 2013

had NASA's budget been that of the defense department.
We are explorers, and need to explore beyond our own back yard, which has been shrinking over the millennia.
Space is one of the only things left that we can explore. True there are oceans, but space is a lot more vast, and thus more interesting.

The way that I now see it, is as soon as some greedy corporation sees that they can make huge profits on it, there will be no exploration beyond our solar system. I hope that I am wrong, but that just seems to be the way that things are going these days.

I would love to be on a ship going to Alpha Centauri, or any other star system, for that matter. I am sure that it has been a dream of many of us as well. I only hope that we humans can get off of this rock, and explore other worlds.

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