But Earth is a planet that has so far eluded the myriad of disasters that could befall it thus far... or at least for millions of years it has. The human species has been lucky enough, or more likely, divinely protected enough, to stay out of any major cataclysmic events that would hit the restart button on life, or destroy the planet entirely. 

And to be clear, it could happen. Think of all the things that could wipe the planet out of life, and you'll still not have thought of all the ways it could end yet by a mile. 

This is why becoming interplanetary is so important. We need to learn how to live on the moon, and more importantly, we need to colonize Mars. This is integral for the human species to do, based purely on extending our odds of survival. This is purely logical. 

Yet, the left doesn't see it that way. The left likes to mock, laugh, and jeer at anyone who thinks becoming interplanetary is necessary. 

For instance, Neil deGrasse Tyson, is an astrophysicist who should, for all intents and purposes, be ecstatic about the idea of space exploration, seeing as how that's his area of expertise. Thing is, Tyson's politics too often get in the way of his scientific mind, and he's more than willing to downplay the idea of colonizing Mars while he's showing off with his leftist buddies. 

Case in point, here he is on Bill Maher's show laughing at Elon Musk's efforts to make us interplanetary and get us to Mars. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson criticizes Elon's plan to go to Mars:
Maher: "Can Elon Musk realistically send humans to Mars?"
NDT: "I have strong views on that:
For him just say 'Let's go to Mars because it's the next thing to do.'
What does that venture capitalist meeting look like?:
Elon… pic.twitter.com/RTacUkfxqK

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 23, 2024

Side note: People need to understand the difference between a scientist and a celebrity scientist. Tyson is one, and so is Bill Nye. Both of these men base their science on whatever is popular on the left at the time. 

Tyson is wrong, as usual. As Musk noted in a response to this video, colonizing Mars is "critical to long-term survival of consciousness," meaning that intelligences like that of the human race must expand to survive. Staying put leaves us vulnerable to too many things. 

I've spoken about this before in a YouTube video. Please give it a watch and subscribe!

As I note in the video, the journey to Mars won't just end with us being on Mars. Tyson conveniently ignores what I know he's aware of, the spin-off technology boom that comes with extreme environment innovation. A lot of the technology you enjoy today was once a tech developed for space travel, and it's more than you think. 

Humanity has nothing to lose and everything to gain from becoming space-faring. It is the logical next step, not just for advancement, but survival. 

And you know who understood this, and actually made the point that we should go out there? 

Tyson's mentor, Carl Sagan, who noted that our vulnerable infancy will give way to wondrous things and that, one day, we will look back at our pale blue dot and wonder and marvel at the way we've expanded and grown.  

Understand that Mars isn't the final stop. It's the first grade. Learning to travel to Mars and live there is the stepping stone to so many things, such as asteroid mining, which will be the next big step in technological development. Once we master mining asteroids, we can explore so many different things, discover so many different facts about our universe, and learn how to more easily traverse it and quickly. 

By the time my son's grandson's grandson is a man, I imagine he'll be watching as ships leave our system to explore what's further out there... maybe he'll even be on that ship. 

But that ship will represent something greater than the left's petty political jabs and disbelief in the species. It will be our survival and our advancement.