Are you kidding me? (Score 1)

Humans are animals. It is hardwired in pretty much all life that preservation comes first. To those of you who wish to stay on Earth, are you seriously kidding me? You know what my childhood dream was? I wanted to help humanity expand into space. You know what my current goal in life is? To do exactly that. We're talking about the future of the human race, people. If you feel like letting humanity die on spinning rock around Sol, then off yourselves. But don't doom us who wish to leave the cradle that is Earth.

I will be damned if I die before we start at least colonizing places off this planet, whether they be common planetside outposts, O'Neill cylinders, Stanford torus stations, Bernal spheres, or other designs. As it stands today, if good government effort was put into place on par with the Space Race or even something similar to the massive (albeit slow) colonization of the New World by European powers, I say we could be out to Jupiter before we even know it.

All it takes is the drive and will to explore and move forward.