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Realistic should take into account required time, tecnology, biology, culture, politics and economics (just to name a few). Taking out of the map colonization,
by gmuslera 6y ago
Realistic should take into account required time, tecnology, biology, culture, politics and economics (just to name a few).
Taking out of the map colonization, and trying a very long term (decades, or centuries) plan to send something like the Voyager or even the Mars Explorer just to learn what is there is more realistic. And once we know more decide what are the next realistic steps. But think in hundreds or thousands of years if everything gets right.
In our current stage it would be easier (not easy) to colonize Venus, the moon or the asteroid belt, and could have a more realistic time frame.
- cynusx 6y agoI agree current solar system would be easier to colonize and definitely economically more sensible but I do think that when lifetimes expand to be 100s of years, that the timelines on what you can invest in would expand accordingly. For example, the longest timeframe in pension fund investing is 25 years. Which is 1/3th of a lifetime. If lifetimes increase by 10x then the timeframe would become 250 years and mineral explorations of other solar systems becomes a feasible financial endeavor.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoThe idea of travelling to another star in a little ship that is launched from earth and is barely able to make the journey is both a very bad plan and a persistent trope. I dont wan't to travel on a wing and a prayer. You have to have a large space industry, mining and construction, to be able to build large ships and send autonomous drones, supllies, etc. You would do that ahead of any colonists actually arriving.