Asteroids can and will cause the extinction of our entire species, it's just a question of when. The only way to change this fate is to become interplanetary. Almost everything we know about space flight was developed in 8 years during the space race where man stepped onto another celestial body for the first time in our history. Since then, due to a lack of funding, we've retreated to low earth o
rbit thereby risking the future of our entire species. The future of the human race is more important than relying on government revenue for small space ventures. It's time to take the leap into commercial space flight and bring with it the revenue which is needed for the development of new 21st century technologies. This will enable mining in deep space allowing for an almost infinite supply of resources for Man on both Earth and the rest of our future homes in the cosmos. For the sake of Human Kind.
