I think there’s no technological barrier there, but cultural choice: if there’s no good economic reason to go to space (ie That has a high enough rate of return

I think there’s no technological barrier there, but cultural choice: if there’s no good economic reason to go to space (ie That has a high enough rate of return within a short enough period of time), we may just die out before doing any of that stuff. I think about that every time someone argues human spaceflight is worthless. I don’t think they’re wrong in the short-term, but the societal consequences are the same as if the entire species just decides to stop having children entirely because there’s no good economic reason to do so. Especially thinking about this near the anniversary of Apollo. What if that was the greatest extent of human travel in space? To me, that’s so sad. https://m.xkcd.com/893/ https://m.xkcd.com/893/ “The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”