Help save planetary exploration

[Gwen]

I think you guys are looking at this the wrong way. Space exploration is hardly for finding a new place to live, it advances our technology immensely, along with learning about other planets and from there using what we learned to help improve our own.

Here's something another poster from another forum had to say when we were landing Curiosity on Mars

"Agreed. I feel like all it boils down to is whether or not Mars itself will produce a pay off. Of course it won't. Mars is nothing but a rock 36 million miles away (at it's closest). Mars isn't the cool part of the mission, it's what needs to be accomplished to get us there. The technology development and the understanding of our universe is the pay off. I love when people say things like "What did we get from going to the moon other than tang and velcro?" .... uhh... how about fucking micro processing chips that completely revolutionized the day to day life of virtually every human being on this planet. "

So IMO, planetary exploration is vital for the advancement of mankind.