[Tublecane]

Maybe we’ll never master interstellar travel, but it’s only been fifty years since we sent objects into orbit, for pete’s sake. It would have been a bit mean to say to Democritus, “Yeah, we all like your atom theory, but when are you gonna get down to business and split it?” These things take time.

Maybe if physicists put down they’re wacky string theories and refocused on the real world we’d have forward progress.

[cripplecreek]

Maybe we’ll never master interstellar travel, but it’s only been fifty years since we sent objects into orbit, for pete’s sake.

True but I really do think we should be a lot more advanced than we are now. 60 years between the Wright brothers first flight and the moon landing, then little else over the last 50.

Artificial gravity for the sake of a space traveler's health is relatively easy. Shielding against radiation is an issue but not one that's outside the realm of possibility.