At 36,250 miles per hour ...

... it will still take the New Horizons spaceship nine years to reach Pluto. Crazy, man. I'm all for it, though, and I still say we need to get some residents living on the moon and on Mars sometime soon too. It's our moral obligation.

Moral, you say? I say absolutely. It has been proven to me time and time again, it seems, that all life is one life. 'do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee' and so on. I even stumbled on to some book in college that suggested that humanity represents 13.7 billion years of history finally thinking about itself. In a sense, we are the consciousness and the conscience for all living things on the Earth and for the universe as well (since we do not know whether we are unique in the universe or not, we may have to simply assume we are)

I know at this point you're thinking I've gone druid on y'all, but I think there's more of this in Christianity and Catholicism than many would suspect. Anyway. If this is at all valid, it means that all the consciousness is locked up on a tiny blue rock that is vulnerable to asteroids, super viruses, and our own stupidity (read: nuclear holocaust).

Therefore, we have a moral obligation to protect ourselves and our brains and get off this tiny rock.

(posted half in jest and half as an excuse to start some exploring).