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> "When I looked at the Earth itself... I started to wonder why I was here, what's my purpose here… it sort of dawned me," he said.

> "And my perspective is that God has given mankind a stage on which to perform. How the play turns out, is up to us."

I think they are saying; that there's nothing out there that humans are capable of taking advantage of. If going to the Moon has any benefit, then it is to point out clearly that we shouldn't explore more and stay right here on earth, and taking care of whatever we mere human can take care of. If going to the moon is that hard and costly, then how does this compare going to the mars? Even if we did managed to, which few selected population can reap the benefit? Is it worth it for us to pay so much civilian money only for it to be a special planet for very few selected capitalist from earth?

At some point, we just had to lose our interest in space exploration. Just because there's too much of this world to keep us busy with.