[central_va]

Look you can fantasize all you want. I am very pro space but I realize the limitations. Our solar system is the outer boundary. It is just physics. Don't take it personally. Because we can throw space junk past our solar system into space doesn't really mean anything. Lets say the CLOSEST star is 4 light years away and a space vehicle could get there in 50 years, then radio back information -> 54 years total. What is the point? And that is the closest star.

Look I like a good science fiction novel too, but is is pure escapism.

[JRandomFreeper]

So you obviously believe that everything to be learned about physics has been learned. And that we are limited to what we know now.

I prefer to believe that we have much to learn about physics that may entirely change the way we look at problems.

That space probe would take 80K years to get to the nearest star and it was launched in the '70s. 54 years for a probe launched in 2020 would be a heck of a log-log curve.

You suffer from limited vision, and a fixation on current methods for solving problems.

There are companies writing software for computers that haven't been built yet, because the statistical probability of the computer being available when the software is finished is so high, and so well recognized (Moore's Law).

The human genome program was started well before there was any possibility of it being finished in a human lifetime.

You can read how that worked out with modern DNA sequencing.

Progress is made by dreamers, not the ones that say it can't be done.

/johnny