>>11751933>until we conquer itIt must mean more than a rock then.
A beautiful celestial huge objects far from your reach. You clearly appreciate its distance and scale, enough to desperately want to get to it and live on it.
If it was just a dead rock why do you want to go there?
It's like the Amazon rainforest. We don't see it or it doesn't necessarily come to our thoughts but knowing it is being deforested on a massive scale is disheartening.
At a scientific or objective level the Earth looses out on Carbon locking (or slowing) and good Oxygen release. If you wanted to see It that way.
Yes I agree it is a big rock essentially. But I think admiration for space and planets can happen from afar. Sorting out Earth's problems, making it work.