[tonynator]

>To what end?

To have the species survive if anything ends all life on Earth - apparently not a priority for you but it is for those that enjoy humanity existing.

Also to explore and learn more about the universe we live in. Do you truly not see value in that? Have you never left the city/state/country you were born in?

[jcranmer]

> To have the species survive if anything ends all life on Earth

Nothing the universe has thrown at Earth in the past 3 billion years has been capable of ending all life. And nothing that could happen in the next million years seems possible of doing that either.

[pretendscholar]

When we say life on earth we mean human life and civilization. Prokaryotes, while alive, are not really what people mean. Yes they would survive asteroids, nukes, possibly nanobot swarms.