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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Ego has nothing to do with it. Curiosity has everything to do with it. Without curiosity to drive us forward, our species would have died off long, long ago. Eventually there will be bases on the moon, then Mars, then farther out. Our species will always want to know what is over the next hill. Eventually, Star Trek and Star Wars will be scifact more than sci-fi. And, probably far sooner then we realize.
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I love Star Trek. But it totally sidesteps the issues of faster than light travel and the issues with space/time when you approach the speed of light. A quick google search will verify this. Even at the speed of light, the closet star, Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 years away.
And this isn't an issue of developing better technology. It's physics. Unless you can figure out a way to suspend those laws, we are stuck pretty much in our own solar system neighborhood.