Do we care what’s out there?

Rand Simberg  asks in the The Space Review if people on Earth really want to explore the solar system just for the sake of seeing what’s there.  He argues there are probably a lot of better reasons for going out there.

Excerpt:

“We will need not a vision for space “exploration,” but rather, a vision for space settlement, for space development, a vision for expanding humanity into space, with all the potential, for good or ill, that that implies.”