Trapper John wrote:The seeds of the human race were placed on this rock millions of years ago by some intergalatic federation whose prime directive forbade them from exterminating us completely.
In essence we are prisoners, exiled on this planet, orbiting an unremarkable star on the outer rim of a galaxy a million light years from anywhere and any thing we can do harm to.
Our crime was being the most greedy, aggressive, belligerent, virus like organism this universe ever created and they will never let us leave the confines of our tiny little solar system.
Conquering the hard vacuum of frozen space is the least of our problems.
Thanks Marvin...