Is Space Exploration Worth It?
Should we allocate the money invested in the space tech industry to other causes?
Humanity was built to explore — it’s not just in our nature, it’s in our DNA. Since our beginning we have traveled the planet searching for answers. Even before we finished discovering all there was on our planet, we began to look beyond. More specifically, we began to look up. We craved more knowledge; we wanted to understand our purpose and our place in a world of which we knew so little. We looked to the stars.
And what could the twinkling spheres of nuclear fusion billions of light years away teach us? They taught us our insignificance. And yet we didn’t stop. We took the challenge head on and kept exploring. We sent humans to the moon, and probes to the sun, and launched telescopes to uncover the secrets of the universe.
But within recent years, the space tech industry hasn’t been advancing exponentially like other tech industries. With climate change threatening to destroy our species and all life on the planet, the question becomes, do we have enough time to shoot for the stars or should we invest all our money and resources in saving Earth? Even scarier, we must consider, is Earth a lost cause?
When debating the worth of space exploration, the countless unsolved problems we…
