USA’s 100-Year Starship Mission to Settle Other Worlds
Now this would be one brave journey and a long term commitment.
Starship Enterprise might have some competition: NASA Ames Director Simon “Pete” Worden has revealed that NASA Ames has “just started a project with DARPA called the Hundred Year Starship,” with $1 million funding from DARPA and $100K from NASA.
“You heard it here,” said Worden at “Long Conversation,” a Long Now Foundation event in San Francisco according to Kurweil.net. “We also hope to inveigle some billionaires to form a Hundred Year Starship fund,” he added.
Of course Kurzweil also makes some wild claims that border on Woo… so.