re: #105 calcajun

I’d love to see it too, but out where? We can’t get anywhere in the Solar System quickly—it would take months—at the very least—to get to Mars; years to go anywhere further.

If we focus on the energy situation here, we’ll come up with more efficient engines for interplanetary flight. I do not see where we’ll ever get FTL based on present technology.

Given current bleeding edge theories, unless we find out for sure that dark energy and exotic matter exist, and are things that can be used and manipulated by technology, then FTL will probably never happen. (Via artificial wormholes or alcubierre-metric style warp drives.)

If that’s the case, interstellar travel and colonization will be Firefly/Serenity-like one way trips unless we can increase the human lifespan to thousands of years and avoid the bad baggage that could come with that.