I was just reading about the future space missions [0] to the outer solar system already planned within the next couple of decades. "Whether it’s Dragonfly goi

I was just reading about the future space missions [0] to the outer solar system already planned within the next couple of decades. "Whether it’s Dragonfly going to Titan, Clipper going to Europa, hopefully a lander going to Europa, hopefully a mission that’ll fly through the plumes of Enceladus, exo-planets going gangbusters, SETI hopefully taking on a broader and broader search and surveying those exo-planets. Within the next few decades we could potentially answer this primordial, age old question of, “Are we alone?” And that’s gonna revolutionize biology. It’s gonna revolutionize how we think about our place in the universe. And so for all of the pains and agony of trying to operate on these time scales, we do live in a beautiful time where we might transform the universe in which we live into a biological universe." Along with the commercialization of space travel, I'd say there is a sufficiently large part of this universe we are yet to "touch" but soon will be able to. I for one am tremendously excited about the future. [0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/04/13/92-kevin-hand-on-life-elsewhere-in-the-solar-system/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/04/13/92-k...