[blam]

"Still, we have to start sometime because the moon has to be moved into an earthlike orbit and terraformed if it's going to be of any use and that process will take a while."

I was thinking just the other day, with my family's history of heart problems, that I'm not likely to even see the next moon landing.

[RightWhale]

Yeah, if we learn robotics and go into outer space, then sometime in the next 10 seconds to 100 years probably most of us are going to go off-line. OTOH, if we stay home and sit on the back porch watching nature's creatures devour each other, then sometime in the next 10 seconds to 100 years probably most of us are going to go off-line.