2011-05-24 01:28:28
Perhaps because the human body requires gravity to remain healthy and possibly sane.
Perhaps because it’s a world that could be terraformed and settled.
Perhaps the all mighty “profit motive” is not the reason to go there.
Perhaps human beings are EXPLORERS with inquiring minds not calculators with legs.
Perhaps YOU would be happy as an asteroid miner but most of us want to be able to walk with “an” earth under our feet and some kind of a surrounding ecosphere instead of the sterile can of a space habitat and perpetual zero G.
