Board Thread:Fun And Games/@comment-37292831-20190516013514/@comment-26180030-20190521193936

New technologies that will be manufactured to help in new and hostile environments. Many things we use today have roots back to the first space missions, even the likes of computers.

Exploration. It's in our very blood. It is a destiny of sorts if you can call it that. Mankind has strived to sail the stars since the dawn of consciousnesses, as hundreds of works from unrelated sources and time periods attest.

Answering the big questions. Why we are here, where we came from, how did the universe start? These questions will not be answered by standing idly by and waiting for them to come to us.

To make new discoveries. Precious minerals we might never have encountered, exotic formations of moons and planets that defy our standard explanations for phenomena. Perhaps eve life. There are several bodies in our system alone which could harbor it, and potentially billions beyond.

And finally, survival. Any day, a meteor strike could fuck us over. Or a supervolcano, or a super plague, or a nuclear war. Our future on the Earth is uncertain, not helped by the fact that several mass extinctions have happened in the past and will by all measures continue to happen in the future.