It does not matter how anyone personally feels politically these days. Folks who take religion to literal extremes could care less as well as many of these people that the Earth will suffer a biblical or dogmatic fate. Yet as far as we do know, our days as a species on this Earth are numbered. Universal support for NASA and the world's other space agencies is of the most dire importance. Even if one is not in agreement with United States foreign policy at any given point for example, one should not think less of the importance of the development of space related technologies and space exploration. Everyone's children in the world will need a new place to call home at some point.
Our Sun, the beloved Sol is not still a young star. There is only a finite amount of fuel it contains and despite it's power and brilliance, it too has an incept date. Eventually it will swell and even encompass the orbit of Earth itself. All that we know of our beloved and precious Terra will be destroyed and rendered to absolute waste. Also, there is the threat we face from collisions in the meantime from comets and the like. Many Scientists are saying these days that the Earth itself is perhaps as much as 90% into it's habitability stage. Rather this is true or not is irrelevant. If humanity is to survive as a species, at some point we must evacuate this planet.
Albeit that this problem of absolute destruction of the Earth is not due to take place for perhaps hundreds of millions if not billions of years; it is of the most extreme importance that humanity can arrive at not just the technological level to construct an escape, but a practical social effort and conscious on the subject as well. Regardless of the philosophy and politics of whatever country or countries that exist at any given time, it is of the utmost importance that all of humanity supports the development of technologies related to space travel and other sciences, like Terra Forming for example. We after all did inherit many needful traits from the vile Romans.
Currently NASA is planning a return trip to the Moon that is much more involved and advanced in purpose than our most recent ventures that were over 30 years ago. I say "our" in the strictest sense of "Everybody". This endeavour is indeed important for the benefit of all of humanity. From the Moon we can reach out to spread our presence to the other planets of our solar system and beyond. In the least if some great calamity should happen to mankind between now and the final cataclysm, in the least we would of the knowledge gained from these exploits hopefully safely tucked away in a cave somewhere for posterity. Mankind has plenty of time between now and then to grow and mature a bit more. In the order of things humanity itself is very new.
It is simply everyone's responsibility who cares about the future of mankind and our ultimate survival as a species to support NASA, and indeed all the other world's space agencies. From the smallest of things the largest and mighty does grow. Personally I'm optimistic about our future. I certainly do hope that a day will come when our children who have settled in the stars will reflect back on us with admiration for actually caring. Perhaps without any lament but pure joy, a single human child whom we successfully managed to shelter around a distant star will shed a tear for us...in thanks to the caring folk who once inhabited a place called Earth. If this were to happen in my mind's eye, just this single instance would of made it all worthwhile.
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