When you think of all the whacky future possibilities for the human race what do you hope happens?

@Roundandroundwego we will eventually need to leave the earth if we wish to survive. More of a thousand of years thing than a tens of years thing though.

We are in a cosmic shooting gallery and even without anthropomorphic contributors the climate will change naturally over time and become unfriendly.

I honestly don't understand why we can't pursue both space exploration and habitation as well as responsible stewardship of our home planet. These really seem like things that go hand in hand to me.

@ViciDraco tech bros want to, doesn't make it possible.
To explore space you use telescopes. You don't ride rockets
That's military might.

@Roundandroundwego I very strongly want to see humanity in space. Even terraforming another planet if we can.

Just because tech bros want to go to space doesn't make it a bad idea. We just need to make sure it is a public and ideally international endeavor.

Space needs to be a project of global unity. Not tech bro libertarian dystopias.

@ViciDraco oh I'm sure you strongly want that. Unity on such projects would have to exclude most highly educated people! It's promoted by people who think colonizing is okay, people with a dangerously cavalier attitude.
Want what you want - but stay out of the way of practicality always. The Langley Bros love space as the "final frontier". It's obscene and most people hardly notice. Star Wars was promoted for a year and children held the tiny figures in their hands before it was written because we didn't want to go to space or have wars - outside the beltway.