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12-09-2011, 09:12 AM
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I mean, billions of dollars could be spent on a Mars program, but for what benefit? Seems like an awful waste to me...
If you're not going to do anything extraordinary with civilisation, what's the point of having it? Existence for the purpose of continuing to exist is true for living organisms, but we can choose to aim higher. Why wouldn't we?
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