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Originally Posted by brandotron
I disagree.
We have all but eradicated smallpox and polio, influenza is much less of a fatal disease, we've developed modern agriculture so that much less people are starving, advancements have been made in science and medicine due to space travel, and Al Gore invented the intarweb.
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But seriously, space travel is vital: get off planet, live elsewhere, so that WHEN (not IF, but WHEN) a global catastrophe occurs on Earth, the human race can survive.