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Ron -- when you say the general public wouldn't give a damn... indeed, this is the painful truth. Most people out there couldn't give the furriest crack of a rats hindquarters about space, astronomy, general relativity or whatever might be out there in the universe. And why should they? Most people are concerned only about the immediate here and now.
We have plenty of problems here on Earth and racing across the solar system is not going solve all of them, but what if... just if... we found abundant amounts of rare or as yet undiscovered minerals on some of our neighbouring planets, materials which could be put to good use here on Earth in who-knows-how-many potential areas...like medicine, or engineering... or solving the clean energy problem? It's a long shot, but if we don't look, we'll never find out.
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