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You're right. The timelines are so long, I'm pretty sure more than a few exciting and really expensive space missions you will not see in your lifetime. We are

by tzfld 7y ago

You're right. The timelines are so long, I'm pretty sure more than a few exciting and really expensive space missions you will not see in your lifetime. We are at hundreds of years from real space colonies.

xvilka 7y ago
Invest in cryonics and be able to wake up in time.
- neuronic 7y ago
  Entrust your body to a corporation? Only once the end of normal life is nigh anyways.
  - Navarr 7y ago
    Welcome to Night Vale has an interesting take on this, which is: Why should the future care about you or your desires? To the future, you are simply a resource.
  - mister_hn 7y ago
    We are just entrusting our minds to Social Networks, so that's not that far from being acceptable
jotm 7y ago
On the other hand, the more missions/programs start now, the more excitement there will be in the future when they're being completed. If companies and countries keep at it, it will soon be a long string of space missions in the news.