I think it is important mankind learns how to travel between stars and find new planets to colonize.

Why?

It would give our lives meaning beyond being a top-level predator.

If we were to go out among the stars and start terraforming planets, we’d use plants and animals from the earth, and all of a sudden their survival rate, in the long run, would increase manyfold.

We would be able to give back to other species for all the shit we’ve subjected them to…

Unless, of course, we started terraforming planets with life…