If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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