Like I said before, IT'S THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE, STUPID!!! If you are a regular American who wants to retain the high standard of living you're so used to, the best way to maintain it is to ACCESS THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE, STUPID!!! Earth has limited resources. Accessing those resources here on this LIVING PLANET does damge to the environment on this LIVING PLANET. If you mined for reseources on the moon, which is a DEAD WORLD, you will not be disturbing the life there because the moon has no life. "But the moon hasn't been totally explored. There could life that hasn't been found yet." Yes, that's possible. But the preponderance of availbalbe evidence says there's no life on the moon. There also no evidence of life anywhere else in this solar system. So if you still want to maintain that high standard of living you love so much, you should support accessing THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE, STUPID!!!
I'm of the mind that opposition to the space program is mostly based on the fact that space exploration is currently unpopular. So even though space exploration can provide the people of Earth with THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE (STUPID!!!), many people will still oppose it. And I don't think I'll ever understand why so many people want to shoot themselves in the foot like that. For example, imagine that you are in some region on Earth where food is scarce and you're starving to death, and yet there is a vast supply of food across a small river. You say, "No! We should never cross that river until we solve all the problems on our side of the river. Once we've done that, then we'll cross the river." In other words, certain people hate space exploration so much, they don't want it to be used to SOLVE THE PROBLEMS ON EARTH. Ho ve! Ho ve forever!
What I'd like to see is a person or persons so persuasive and influential that they can popularize space travel. Then finally we won't end up running out of resources, remain trapped in this planet and drown in our own filth. IT'S THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE, STUPID!!! Yup! IT'S THE UNLIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES OF OUTER SPACE, STUPID!!!
Also, here's a web comic I did on the subject:
www.100megsfree4.com/outorb/...page.htm