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Maybe. Things are still very far apart relative to our current lifespan.

We might be 1,000 years or more away from fully colonizing our own solar system before it’s worth a long, dangerous journey to another star.

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Everyone always thinks along the lines of current biological limitations when talking about space travel while ignoring the huge advances that are being made in biotechnology. Given another 100 years I think we’ll be pretty good at customizing our biology to suit our needs. Hell, we probably have the required technical ability right now, we just lack the theoretical understanding.

Due to time dilation, the journey might not be that long.

But reporting back to your home world would be almost irrelevant since thousands of years would have passed there, right?

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