- "I would like to see us get this place right first
before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations
out on to other planets."
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- The actor who plays the captain on TV's Star Trek has
said he thinks resources spent on sending people into space should be used
on "getting this place right first".
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- Patrick Stewart said Earth should be our focus rather
than other planets.
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- "I'm a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to the
whole business of space travel," he said in a BBC interview.
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- As commander of the USS Enterprise on the show, his character
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is an avid space traveller.
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- In an interview with BBC World Service radio, Stewart
said he backed unmanned missions such as Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity
and the UK's Beagle 2 mission.
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- But he said he did not believe the human race was ready
to begin thinking about beaming down on other planets.
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- "As I get older my unease at the time and the money
that has to be spent on projects putting human beings back to the moon,
and on to another planet, is so enormous," he said.
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- "And it would take up so many resources, which I
personally feel should be directed at our own planet."
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- Interviewed by the World Update programme, he added:
"Humankind has just not simply become sufficiently evolved to now
leave this planet, take itself out to space and began establishing more
of us out there.
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- "I would like to see us get this place right first
before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations
out on to other planets - even though they may be utterly uninhabited."
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