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Is this rhetorical? Feeding the hungry. Healing the sick. Educating the masses. Etc, etc.

I'm a big space fan, don't get me wrong. But your exuberance uh, needs tempering.

I meant unobtained goals.

More or less those things you mentioned have solutions and they are getting better.

We have about 600 million years before we'd need to perform serious planetary engineering to remain on Earth and about a billion years before humanity must leave Earth to survive.

Right now, the greatest threat to our survival and prosperity is humanity itself.

Ok, but most of Blue Origins plans rely on off planet infrastructure so SpaceX can have earth and Blue Origin the rest of space.

Looking after the humanity we already have?

Figuring out a way to coexist peacefully before expanding any further.

Then we never go.

What if expanding helps us coexist peacefully? Maybe being in a crab bucket with no frontier is part of the issue.

Those goals can be achieved in parallel.