120 years? Orion pulse nuclear can do far better with 1960s technology.
Space habs are the next step, probably hollowing out and asteroid or something similar.
The other option will be cybernetics. Seems less radical with recent AI advances. Humans are brittle. Cybots less so.
I see a lot of permanent pessimists about space "we should fix the earth".
There are... 8 billion people? We cannot "change the course" of 8 billion people with policies or carrots. Alas, war or famine will be the only hammer I hat changes course of that many people, and if that happens we'll likely bring everything down.
What is true insanity is what we waste on the defense department. although within that is the real hope for space settlement: it provides military advantage.
Space habs are the next step, probably hollowing out and asteroid or something similar.
The other option will be cybernetics. Seems less radical with recent AI advances. Humans are brittle. Cybots less so.
I see a lot of permanent pessimists about space "we should fix the earth".
There are... 8 billion people? We cannot "change the course" of 8 billion people with policies or carrots. Alas, war or famine will be the only hammer I hat changes course of that many people, and if that happens we'll likely bring everything down.
What is true insanity is what we waste on the defense department. although within that is the real hope for space settlement: it provides military advantage.