No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

stvebuscemi-deactivated20151024 asked:

What do you think of all this talk about humans populating mars?

I think it’s one small step for space exploration, one giant leap for the still very adolescent human species.

While I of course am fully on board with this, we should be much further ahead in our exploration of our galaxy, let alone the solar system. So Mars is one of many steps we will take, but I’m not a Mars buff to the degree that I think that it’s all about Mars. I mean, look how long it’s taken us - with all the setbacks, financial wishy washiness and consistent lack of political will - to just keep the space program alive and thriving… there’s much work to be done.

Russia, I believe, will kick things into high gear for space exploration, along with Japan. SpaceX and the private sector in general are completely unprecedented wildcards and with what little most people know about what’s going on around the world toward space exploration and R&D, I’m confident that we will all be surprised and emphatic when this all starts to kick off and the ferrying of humans via suborbital flight begins.

The frontier of space beckons and all of the nonsense going on with the government right now only reveals how dysfunctional it is altogether. Private industry is not going to wait around for government officials and the so-called “leaders” to get their shit together.

Space is calling and it’s pretty clear that if we don’t start to branch outward now, humanity’s eggs are being held captive to the basket of Earth. You don’t have to be a space enthusiast to understand how dangerous that is, considering how ignorant of stewards we’ve become of our home planet.

The same amount of enthusiasm, curiosity and technological ingenuity should be applied at all facets of our frontiers: climate change, marine conservation, ecology, ocean exploration, geoscience, conservation/preservation of our night skies (light pollution), energy, sustainability….the list goes on. But we need to do all of these things AND explore space if we wish to truly evolve.

Although to some it may seem incomprehensible, I believe we will eventually gravitate toward a global co-dependent society and work on all of these things together, exploring space as a simultaneous family. Anything alternative to this - as we have seen throughout history and to the present day - is unsustainable.

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