iPod iChing - to infinity and beyond

It is friday, and I am late.
We ask the Great and Mighty iPod: is there a reason for us to get a manned presence off Earth on a time scale of a century or less?

Whoosh goes the randomizer:
Whoosh...

Future looks good, but the Crossing speaks clear and the Past is quite literal.
The Outcome is revolution and liberation. The Inside tells us we need a new vehicle, I'll take the associated ode to masculinity as literal, no sardonic... the spring in the ass is a good reminder of the bumps on the road ahead.

I decree that we will go, but it will take a little bit longer than the Prof Hawking thought desirable, and it will not be a smooth road.

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

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The most important long-term reason is to "back up" the human (and other) species against planetary disasters. My grandparent's home contained books written in the 1940's claiming that humans would never reach the Moon. While short-term technological progress tends to disappoint, in the long term human achievement ALWAYS surprises us. In 1969, who would have thought we would all have cell phones and computers? People will also go into Space for purely practical and capitalistic reasons, like getting new sources of energy.