Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Are you not excited by the quest to to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before?

Seriously though. Consider if your ancestors had shared your (to put it mildly) disturbing parochialism. You would still be sitting in a muddy field somewhere in County Bumfúck, using your own shít to fertilise your potatoes and dying when the crop failed.
No, I'm very keen on exploring the earth as it involves places I might one day want to go to. Space, on the other hand, is an irrelevance.