Now that our space program has begun again, would it be premature to ask when our astronauts can begin their 57,000-year round-trip to our closest star neighbor, Alpha Centauri? It will take at least that long-at 100,000 miles per hour-to travel the 50 trillion miles.
Or should we be content with vacation trips to the moon, and, down the road, colonization of Mars? Wouldn`t it be more sensible instead to invest our limited global resources in restoring planet Earth?
This paradise, this wholly gracious planet, this speck of dust in the universe, one of a kind, so far as we know to date, this Earth should not be allowed to degrade into an uninhabitable cinder while we-Russia and the United States-expend so much brain power, manpower and time power to colonize the abominable planet Mars.
