More than that, I think it was profoundly demonstrated when the first "Blue Marble" images came back to Earth, and many people realized what a small colony the human race really is, and how interdependent, on how small a whizzing outpost... When man on earth can look into space and find a place in the cosmos and say "We are there, too; and I am one of us.", why then we have a species instead of a gang of fragmented neurotic tribes.

That is important for the future. Lives depend on it.


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