[samus]

Carl Sagan can go breathe vacuum if he really thinks those generals and emperors spilled all that blood for nothing. That fraction of a dot is a very special part of the universe: it is so far the only known planet that is able to support human life. Meaningless on the grand cosmic arena (if such a notion even makes sense), but invaluable for humans.

[Morte42]

Maybe its the only known planet because we dont know many other planets though. The universe is a largely unknown quantity and aside from the Asians space isnt interesting to most people anymore.

[samus]

That would still leave us with the problem of reaching them. We know now that the solar system is right out.