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I agree with this pretty well, in that it's likely that flesh-and-blood humans will never physically travel to other planets en masse without some fundamental d
by saulrh 15y ago
I agree with this pretty well, in that it's likely that flesh-and-blood humans will never physically travel to other planets en masse without some fundamental discoveries in physics. You'll note, though, that he explicitly disregards both starwisps and strong AI, and there's a reason for that: putting human-descended AI out into the universe is a much, much more feasible endeavor, and one that I personally believe we'll eventually accomplish.
- seanalltogether 15y agoI would go so far as to question whether the first "person" to set foot on mars will be recognizable to us as human. We are simply too fragile.
- adrianN 15y agoGetting to Mars is actually not so difficult. I'm fairly confident that we'll have at least the token human on Mars in my lifetime.