Beyond Our Cradle ~ Driven By Carrot & Stick...

Driven by both Carrot & Stick, we as humanity need to go -- and I personally want to go -- Beyond Our Cradle to seek the planets and the stars! The Carrot are all the amazing discoveries yet to be made and the glorious prospect of exploring vistas such as these recently shared in The Big Picture on Cassini's Continued Mission... The Stick is what Professor Stephen Hawking describes as the urgent need for us to execute our ultimate back-up plan, getting off-planet to minimize the chances of cataclysmic civilization-loss, noting...

"We must colonize space in order to survive..."