11 Scary Space Facts That'll Make You Appreciate the Earth We're Destroying
by Stephen Johnson from Lifehacker on (#5QGCK)

We need to get rid of outer space-it's too dark and too terrifying, and everything out there wants to kill us. Yet some of our most popular billionaires seem convinced that rocketing humanity off into the stars is a more viable longterm survival strategy than simply trying a little less hard to ruin the one planet...