Namsnanny
But isnt it true that some space travel is aimed at a first past the post scrabble to harness minerals and even water by one country or another?
In order to A) safe guard interests B) financially exploit new places?
So any travel will be a step towards that.
Not just for benevolent or benign scientific purposes.
This is an odd argument Namsnanny
I'm actually at a loss as to how to answer it. Do we stop any research that somebody, somewhere might turn to nefarious purposes, even though it is overwhelmingly beneficial to the human race and the planet?
Forget the "exploiting other worlds" hypothesis. We're counting walruses 
