Comment by TeMPOraL

> It's really a human thing, not a scifi nerd's. It's impossible not to look at the stars and wonder. It's human nature.

Judging by social media, half the population has an unhealthy obsession about travel and tourism. It's not hard to connect dreams of space to interests of most people here: most stars you look at have planets around them, now imagine some of those are like Earth, and now suddenly this is a place to on a cruise to, to have new pictures to post to Instagram.