The Importance of Interstellar Travel

Dawkins: In the balance of probabilities, if we were talking Turkey here, more than 50% likely in your estimation that there would be other life forms outside our own planet. We might well discover intelligent life through radio communication. I think that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence setty is a worthwhile enterprise, which I think should be pursued and funded. If Elon Musk is successful at getting human beings to Mars in your lifetime, would you volunteer? Oh, no. Of course, that's not in interstellar. No, I wouldn't volunteer. But I might as, perhaps he last thing I did, if I knew I was dying, yes.