Hah! We can't even build nuclear plants surviving a 20m tsunami or airplanes where the front (door) doesn't fall off ... I jest, but I believe we're far away f

Hah! We can't even build nuclear plants surviving a 20m tsunami or airplanes where the front (door) doesn't fall off ... I jest, but I believe we're far away from anything truly useful for space travel even to MARS or Belt objects. We should obviously try, so we can eventually succeed. I suspect our (democratic) culture is making long term thinking and planning harder than ever, since these efforts will require sacrificing short term comforts. It will be interesting to see if the much more centralized Chinese or private US-based efforts will speed up our progress.