We got to start somewhere..
some have already started..
Mars seems along way away..
Luna seems more logical place for now..
That’s the best three examples he could come up with for colonization ideas??
How about Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”??
How about the race of Pierson’s Puppeteers and their “Fleet of Worlds” in Larry Niven’s “Ringworld” books...a perfect Kemperer Rosette of five worlds, accelerating away at just under light speed, from the blast front coming from the galactic core that won’t reach where they were for millions of years...the ultimate in paranoia; take all of your home worlds and run...
While we’re talking Larry Niven, let’s talk about the Pak Protectors and Starseed Lures...
While we’re talking Robert Heinlein, let’s talk about Lazarus Long...
And how about the Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad and the Great Diaspora...??
How about Arthur C. Clark’s “Rendezvous With Rama”, a fifty kilometer long alien cylinder with it’s own automated civilization inside? In the third novel someone actually finds a way to travel outward in Rama...
For starters...
Cheers!!
I wish I were still alive to witness it when it happens.......
I read a book years ago, written by the late Isaac Asimov, that made a compelling argument that interstellar travel at relativistic speeds may be impossible. I think in the future, we will colonize the solar system. As far as venturing out much further, I don’t think so.