I don't think humans will be able to do it, not in the near future (on a cosmic level, that would mean the next millenium?). The world will look vastly different then, and maybe we will have figured out a way to dispatch androids on voyages that will last thousands of years, but I don't think generation ships will ever be considered a safe or useful idea. After all, any human-comandeered ship that is sent out an any point in time, will be overtaken by the next human-comandeered ship that is sent out, making the first one absolutely useless (due to advancements in travel speed). That said, I wonder if things like warp drives or wormholes are even physically possible, that would drastically change the way we think about space travel.
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Reply to Will mankind ever travel outside our solar system? by savol_
I don't think humans will be able to do it, not in the near future (on a cosmic level, that would mean the next millenium?). The world will look vastly different then, and maybe we will have figured out a way to dispatch androids on voyages that will last thousands of years, but I don't think generation ships will ever be considered a safe or useful idea. After all, any human-comandeered ship that is sent out an any point in time, will be overtaken by the next human-comandeered ship that is sent out, making the first one absolutely useless (due to advancements in travel speed). That said, I wonder if things like warp drives or wormholes are even physically possible, that would drastically change the way we think about space travel.