> There is enough time to think about colonizing the stars after that. I didn't read it as indicating that we should fully postpone humanity's problems. For ex

> There is enough time to think about colonizing the stars after that. I didn't read it as indicating that we should fully postpone humanity's problems. For example, the next few sentences read: > The world isn't going to end because his next launch is a month late due to pesky safety regulations or whatever else. This effort is going to play out over many generations and centuries. That indicates to me that the delay the person is considering is on the order of the delay imposed by FCC regulations (i.e. months or years), not "start working on it after we've solved humanity's problems". But that's just how it reads to me