Who needs to go to the Moon?

This is humanity. You don't want to brush your teeth everyday, but you do it because you want to age with your teeth there. You have quitted smoking, good for you! And if you didn't and you want to, you are thinking in those reasons to finally do it, for once and for all.

Sometimes, there is a challenge in your life that makes you go, where you didn't expected to be. And that is humanity too. Marrying, having children, leaving your parent's nest, talking to her, looking at him in that way. Those feelings pushes you to boldly go, where you have never gone before.

Stuck in your car, in the middle of the rush hour, your mind will show you a future with flying vehicles, or teleportation devices. We need them so badly. We put our hopes in science.

Carl Sagan told me once that I'm made of the same things a star is made of, as he told to everyone of us, humans. In a starry night, I can feel he was true. I need to go to the Moon. But this is not a matter of feelings anymore. My children need to live in Mars.

We want to live longer, as this world turns a better place to be. This is a remarkable place, but there is no room for everyone. Mostly, because our specie is getting close to the saturation point when a single comunity of organisms is labeled as a plague.

Our cities are stopping the natural evolution of the biosphere, and we are chopping to many strings in the net of life forms. We are too many to make this world susteinable. Thus, we are getting to the point of extinction.

Of course I believe in what humans can do when we are facing death: miracles are short. And by the end of this century we will be transforming other planets to live in.

Next time you are in your car, stuck in the rush hour, lower your window and explain to the driver next to you that we are too many. He will understand what you mean.