humanity ultimate goal is to travel to other solar systems. if we don't do space exploration to expand our knowledge and be content walking around on a thin crust of rock. its like frogs in a well there's a bulldozer coming and you can't see it or even aware of it.
This. I hate travel, I get 26 days of vacation a year. I'll take a week off at a time and sometimes not leave the apartment at all over the course of 8-9 days, or even look out a window for that matter. I imagine I'm far from alone.
And when I went aboard U-505 recently, my first thought was "I could totally live in here", a fried that went aboard her with me agrees that we could both happily live on a sub/spaceship/bunker for extended periods.