[ringsarcle]

Pointy end in the other fellow. Rinse and repeat. Until we own everything.

[bebeacc]

Pretty much. We're doomed...

[prpaims]

Mankind isn't meant to travel the stars. That's for bacteria.

[Haibundadam]

There's enough traveling to do within our own solar system to keep us busy for a quite a while.

[Qahtwugc]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
We already are at a star. ...give or take 98 million miles or so.

[DextExexy]

Originally posted by Elok
I'm pretty sure that will be the case. Don't care. I'd be dead by the time it happened anyway. The thing is I feel dreaming of flying 200 years ago was not totally pointless because airplanes, zeppelins etc would be invented
But when mankind realizes that we will never travel to the starrs, explore new worlds etc, that we are stuck on earth, or earth + mars at most, there will be some kind of depression.

[Obgrfbke]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
errrrrr.......... How many people do you think go on living solely for the hope of one day visiting Alpha Centauri? Not many I'll wager.
It's not the individual aspiration, it's the way the idea of expansion powerfully affects the spirit of a people, the way an entire society views itself.

[gamblingstats]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride


The thing is I feel dreaming of flying 200 years ago was not totally pointless because airplanes, zeppelins etc would be invented
But when mankind realizes that we will never travel to the starrs, explore new worlds etc, that we are stuck on earth, or earth + mars at most, there will be some kind of depression. NO, not really. We are an earthbound species. MOst humans would never travel to another planet voluntarily, anymore than people travel to totally different parts of this very own planet.

Besides, the Solar System has a lot of real estate an mankind (or those few individuals willing to travel outside of earth to live) will be pretty busy using it for many millenia to come.