Nah, that doesnt sound to trecky Ian, what you say does make logical sense in many ways- hard to prove- but logical and rational.
The old saying- You will know the tree by the fruit it bares- could be applied to biological life forms perhaps. If we are the Earths fruit then we all feel a part of the cosmos i would guess, so why wouldnt we go out into it eventually and further evolve and become more efficient along the way if all goes well.
Seems we will have no choise anyhow, one thing the astrobiology book had was a satellite image of the sun blasting the H2O away from our planet, we are getting slowly drier by the day as a planet.
