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Originally Posted by Teuthida
Perhaps there's a StarWars-esque council of planets out there already. We have no place there right now.
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Replace Star Wars with Mass Effect and thats my view on that.
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Originally Posted by Typhoid
I was watching a show with Steven Hawking where he raised the best point about why we'll never really leave our galaxy.
He said that since it would take so long it would have no actual payoff for the generation who begins it.
That is a hard thing to commit to for a government. How can you tell your people "We're going to spend billions of dollars, and send hundreds of people deep into space where we will never ever ever know what happens to them - because we will all be long dead before they get to where they're going."
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I dont think Stephen Hawking ever mused the idea of a slip space drive or warp drive. It would still take a long time to reach another solar system, but it would be much faster than just flying there. And whos to say structures like Stargates(not portals, more along the lines of Mass Relays) cant be constructed. Or maybe we can harness dark energy and that will do something cool? But I dont think humans will ever make it that far, we're to damn busy blowing ourselves up. So the next best bet to get into space would be aliens providing advanced technology, but that is also highly unlikely. A man can dream though, a man can dream.
