The wars, which were objectively terrible occurrences, had a byproduct of accelerating the scientific progress which, in turn, greatly benefited the entire humanity.
Greatly benefited the entire humanity like a world full of pesticides did? like nuclear and its issues on thousands of years did? like the invasion of chemy that made an invasion of cancer did? like the overpoluted atmosphere did?
It greatly benefited Humanity from a...
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...point of view, eventually.
I know that war has very often been a way to boost technological advancement, now saying it 'greatly benefits the entire humanity' might, very eventually, lacks subtlty.
At most it greatly benefited us in showing us all the screwed up things we shouldn't do anymore.
Personally, the so huge cost of Space Exploration is part of what made me realize Money was so baseless, and at the very least belonged to pure Human decisions (while seems most people still believe we have a little amount of gold to share the best we can...).
But, Money or not Money to rule your economical system, this is not the problem, since all belongs to Human decisions as long as there isn't any concrete obstacle.
In short, as long as Humans won't find an interest (intellectual or material) in exploring Space deeper, that might not happen, no matter money.
Nowadays, apparently, only a bunch of very rich guys have such an interest, but you don't even know wether that's mostly a money interest, that wouldn't go very far, or a deeper interest.
A system without money as we know it would 'just' not submit this fancy goal to what rules money nowadays, mostly greed, but wouldn't necessarily make it easier if people don't express that wish by one way or an other.
So, 1st point, if we are not totally silly, we can have both Food and Space, and maybe even without polution and wars,
woooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooo!!And, personally, I'd plead for a quite ambitious program of exploration and even conquest, the most ambitious possible even.
Other than that, for the very short term, waiting for us to be less silly, there is one thing on which I often wished we make big savings in Space exploration.
I heard that one of the stuffs that was costing the most money, was to totally sterelize what we send here and there, in order not to 'polute' other environments.
I can understand the concern, life on Earth showed how some life balances could be fragile, but heck, if we wanna seriously move ourselves into Space, we will have to deal with...
life.
Other concerns about that could be about to be sure that life we find elsewhere doesn't belong to Earth originally, well, some DNA analysis might be able to sort this out.
Personally, I even sometimes wish we try to export the most life we could outside Earth, that could even be one of the great mission of Humanity, trying to export Earth Life anywhere it can.
In the end of the day, we are only one life form amongst others, the main point would be Life itself, we trying to explore, conquer, and export, would just be...
Life goes on!Space Exploration is like a necessary breath, both intellectually and concretely.
Vers l'Infini et Au-delà!!
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