My understanding is there is not a such thing and humans, if we want to go interstellar, are going to have to accept that those humans and probably all their offapring are gone forever.
Yet. Or, as the good science communicators like to say, "as far as we know / as far as our current understanding goes". Looking back in history, almost everything we're taking for granted today was both dreamed by the pas era's "futurists" and deemed impossible by their skeptics. Only time (hah!) will tell, I guess.
I used to argue this way, too. But i forget if it was NdgT or someone else said basically that there's no real reason to leave right now for interstellar travel because advancements in technology will make future travel take less time - the future travelers may pass the present travelers.
So what, we wait until we have wormhole technology?
I say we start now. maybe tech improves, maybe we get wormholes. If so, maybe we can go "cut 'em off at the pass" and move the present travelers to the future ship(s).
My understanding is there is not a such thing and humans, if we want to go interstellar, are going to have to accept that those humans and probably all their offapring are gone forever.
> there is not a such thing
Yet. Or, as the good science communicators like to say, "as far as we know / as far as our current understanding goes". Looking back in history, almost everything we're taking for granted today was both dreamed by the pas era's "futurists" and deemed impossible by their skeptics. Only time (hah!) will tell, I guess.
I used to argue this way, too. But i forget if it was NdgT or someone else said basically that there's no real reason to leave right now for interstellar travel because advancements in technology will make future travel take less time - the future travelers may pass the present travelers.
So what, we wait until we have wormhole technology?
I say we start now. maybe tech improves, maybe we get wormholes. If so, maybe we can go "cut 'em off at the pass" and move the present travelers to the future ship(s).