I disagree. While we could figure out how to travel to the moon in a very short time (think 60 years from the wright brothers till neil armstrong), anything bey

I disagree. While we could figure out how to travel to the moon in a very short time (think 60 years from the wright brothers till neil armstrong), anything beyond mars might well be far beyond our capabilities. this is much due to the fact that any chemical reaction based propulsion is so inefficient, that travelling beyond mars would be extremly costly and consume a large part of our earthly resources. If we would promote nuclear reaction based propulsion devices I might get hope again - but those are politically difficult to promote (because of very reasonable concerns about their dangers). nonetheless I'm pretty optimistic about the possibilities of genetic reengineering. a lot of that research is really constrained by those ancient (aristotelean) laws concerning stem cell research.