Posted
2/05/2004 09:32:00 PM
by Douglas
Why does anyone care what
Patrick Stewart thinks?"As I get older my unease at the time and the money that has to be spent on projects putting human beings back to the moon, and on to another planet, is so enormous," he said.
"And it would take up so many resources, which I personally feel should be directed at our own planet."
Interviewed by the World Update programme, he added: "Humankind has just not simply become sufficiently evolved to now leave this planet, take itself out to space and began establishing more of us out there.
"I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations out on to other planets - even though they may be utterly uninhabited."
Obviously, this statement is getting press because it's so ironic. An actor whose claim to fame is the commander of a space ship saying that space travel isn't worth it. But it's his justification that I find interesting. He wants to "get this place right first" before we continue to space? Where would he like to start? How 'bout idiot actors that think they have all the answers.