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It always baffles me when people say that we gotta fix everything on Earth before we go to space when countless inventions and innovations that make our modern lives even remotely possible are a direct result of space travel. Just to name a few; disease and medical research, better understanding of physics, advances in computing, GPS, weather prediction and tracking, solar panels, and the Internet. You don't have to get excited, but to say we shouldn't go to space is a very short sighted argument.
We have no way of testing to see where our world would be if we'd made different decisions.
That said, I'd leave all you fucks in an instant to be put into stasis on a ship.
I don't even need the ship, just put me in stasis for a couple thousand years. Maybe then I'll finally wake up rested
The goal would be to wake up in the future. It'd better be some scifi Utopia, too.
Wait, you guys wake up?
I only want to wake up if we have badass space drugs.