Would that the same kind of energy and interest were applied to learning to adapt to living here in the first place.

Jay Barbee on MSNBC’s Morning Joe December 5, 2014. Commenting on the Orion Space Capsule launch . . .

“What this all means is very simply . . . this is THE project for the survival of the human race, the human species.

”Generations of the future will have to be colonizing Mars. Colonizing the Moon. And other places in the solar system, if this species is going to survive. Because Earth is not going to support us forever." 

Isn't that wonderful. We're taken serious steps to get the hell out of here.