Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
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.
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
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