And as intellectually ready as educated-humanity is to progress with these massive projects, such as the SKA and CERN, how can we take deep satisfaction in such blank-check-funded achievements, when smaller funds could be directed into simple irrigation projects in drought-stricken places that could potentially save millions of people in hard-working subsistence farm families from starvation - notwithstanding the earth upheaval in-progress that is altering everyone's climate? At what threshold do we know that we're morally ready to go to the stars, or to other dimensions?
Well said.
And, are we really ready to go to the stars, with what we've allowed to happen on this planet such as the Pacific Garbage Patch, ruination of the Gulf of Mexico for yet more oil, and the list of our sins is endless.
It is as if we humans are 7.6 billion toddlers running around with unlimited access to every device and gadget that cuts, combusts, explodes, disintegrates, and/or destroys everything in its path. And we never clean up our mess. Thanks for your food for thought.