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Originally Posted by Skybird
Human imagination may be big, but space is bigger. So: baby-steps, one after the other. In 50 or 100 generations, we talk again, if man then still is there. Personally I think we will have ruined ourselves much earlier, within the next 200 years or so. That is the by far more realistic scenario.
I also wonder whether man's psyche really is made for bearing the unimaginable empty void and loneliness that there is. I do not want to test it myself. I fear madness more than just death.
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I agree that we probably ruin us much earlier, I give 100 years tops. The problem is while we progress in science we regress culturally and morally, far-sightness and wisdom are becoming more and more absent. Space travel or even space colonization will be absolutely pointless if we don't start to progress culturally and morally and sort our problems, but this will not happen. besides I really don't believe
we will manage to go really beyond our solar system anyway.
I think almost all people will not be able to bear the the empty void, only a very very few, who may bear it.